Case Name: Public Administrator of the County of New York, as Administrator of the Estate of Almir C. De Souza, Deceased, Respondent, v. Odeco, Inc., Also Known as Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company, Appellant, et al., Defendants. Public Administrator of the County of New York, as Administrator of the Estate of Almir C. De Souza, Deceased, Respondent, v. Odeco, Inc., Also Known as Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company, Appellant, et al. Defendants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1982-05-20
Citations: 88 A.D.2d 543
Docket Number: Appeal No. 13297N
Parties: Public Administrator of the County of New York, as Administrator of the Estate of Almir C. De Souza, Deceased, Respondent, v Odeco, Inc., Also Known as Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company, Appellant, et al., Defendants. Public Administrator of the County of New York, as Administrator of the Estate of Almir C. De Souza, Deceased, Respondent, v Odeco, Inc., Also Known as Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company, Appellant, et al. Defendants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 88
Pages: 543–547

Head Matter:
Public Administrator of the County of New York, as Administrator of the Estate of Almir C. De Souza, Deceased, Respondent, v Odeco, Inc., Also Known as Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company, Appellant, et al., Defendants. Public Administrator of the County of New York, as Administrator of the Estate of Almir C. De Souza, Deceased, Respondent, v Odeco, Inc., Also Known as Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company, Appellant, et al. Defendants.
—(Appeal No. 13297N.)

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Ostrau, J.), entered June 12, 1981, reversed, on the law and in the exercise of discretion, and plaintiff-respondent's motion for discovery denied, without costs and without disbursements, and without prejudice to a new motion therefore, limited, however, to subjects not having to do with jurisdiction in personam over defendant-appellant. (Appeal No. 13298.) Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Pécora, J.), entered April 8, 1981, affirmed, without costs or disbursements. (Appeal Nos. 13297N-13298.) The order we affirm sustained in personam jurisdiction over defendant-appellant for reasons amply set forth in the opinion of Justice Pécora at Special Term (NYU, April 8, 1981, p 6, col 4). The discovery sought by plaintiff-respondent granted at Special Term, was as to subject matter now rendered academic by our disposition of the appeal from the motion addressed to jurisdiction (Appeal No. 13298), and we reverse accordingly. That disposition should not stand in the way of discovery sought in any other proper area. Concur — Sullivan, Markewich and Milonas, JJ.; Murphy, P. J., and Carro, J., dissent in part with respect to Appeal No. 13297N in a memorandum by Murphy, P. J., and both dissent in a memorandum by Murphy, P. J., with respect to Appeal No. 13298, the two of which follow: