MATTER OF JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

Index No. 1960/1623B. Appeal No. 13059N. Case No. 2019-5405.

191 A.D.3d 430 (2021)

137 N.Y.S.3d 705

2021 NY Slip Op 00626

In the Matter of the Intermediate Account of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Trustee of the Trust Created by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Settlor, for the Benefit of Lucy Aldridge Rockefeller, Also Known as Lucy Waletzky. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Formerly Known as The Chase National Bank of the City of New York, as Trustee of the Trust for the Benefit of Lucy R. Waletzky, Appellant, v. Lucy R. Waletzky, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided February 4, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hahn & Hessen, LLP, New York ( Zachary G. Newman of counsel), for appellant.

MoloLamken LLP, New York ( Thomas J. Wiegand of counsel), for respondent.

Concur—Manzanet-Daniels, J.P., Singh, Kennedy, Mendez, JJ.


The Surrogate providently exercised her discretion in limiting certain requests in the subpoenas served on nonparty entities (the Rockefeller entities) to the period from 1962 through 1975 based on objectant's counsel's representations at oral argument that objectant challenges petitioner's conduct, primarily in selling certain stocks held by the trust at issue, during that period, not the entire 50-year period of the accounting (see CPLR 3103; SCPA 102; see also...

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