
    [624 NE2d 175, 603 NYS2d 991]
    Bernard M. Bloom, as Kings County Surrogate, et al., Appellants, v Matthew T. Crosson, as Chief Administrator of the Courts of the State of New York, Respondent, et al., Defendant.
    Argued September 2, 1993;
    decided October 7, 1993
    
      APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Cahn Wishod Wishod & Lamb, Melville (Richard C. Cahn, Eugene L. Wishod, Scott M. Karson, Frederick Eisenbud and Howard M. Miller of counsel), for appellants.
    
      Michael Colodner, New York City, and John Eiseman, Stephen E. Gross, Lawrence K. Marks and Kenneth Falk for respondent.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Order affirmed, with costs, and certified question answered in the negative for the reasons stated in the opinion by Justice A. Franklin Mahoney at the Appellate Division (183 AD2d 341).

Concur: Judges Simons, Titone, Hancock, Jr., Bellacosa and Smith. Taking no part: Chief Judge Kaye and Judge Levine.  