Opinion
December 14, 1942.
Order sustaining objections of the respondent Lenore K. Katz to certain questions asked on her examination before trial, and denying plaintiffs' motion to compel answers thereto, reversed on the law and the facts, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, the objections overruled and the motion granted, with ten dollars costs, the examination to proceed on five days' notice. In our opinion the questions to which objections were made were within the scope of said respondent's examination as ordered by the court, and they are relevant to the issues. The competency and materiality of the evidence are matters to be determined by the trial court. ( Antun, Inc., v. Viola, 235 App. Div. 816; Brown v. Bedell, 232 App. Div. 158; Guenther v. Ridgway Co., 159 App. Div. 74.) Lazansky, P.J., Johnston, Taylor and Close, JJ., concur; Carswell, J., not voting.