¶2Before Judges CARTON, LORA and SEIDMAN.

¶3Mr. Bernard A. Kuttner, attorney for defendants-appellants.

¶4*169Messrs. Mason, Griffin & Pierson, attorneys for plaintiffs-respondents.

¶5Mr. Samuel C. Inglese, attorney for defendants-respondents Estate of Joan S. Baller, deceased, and Carole Baller.

¶6Messrs. McCarthy, Bacsik and Hicks, attorneys for defendant-respondent Warren O'Connell (Messrs. Gordon C. Strauss and Christopher Baker, on the brief).

¶7PER CURIAM.

¶8This case was consolidated on appeal with two other related cases involving the will of Robert S. Herbert, Jr., deceased. The reason for such consolidation was that the issues involved in the related cases would have been rendered moot if this court should decide that the bequests to the attesting witnesses were invalid.

¶9While this matter was pending on appeal so much thereof as applied to Joan S. Baller was settled. Consequently, there is no need for us to give further consideration to this phase of the appeal.

¶10As to the remaining appeal involving Warren O'Connell, we conclude that the trial court properly held that any disqualification that may have existed because he was an attesting witness to the will which provided a stock option in his favor was removed as the result of the later execution of the codicils to which he was not a witness, and we affirm essentially for the reasons expressed in the opinion of Judge Furman reported at 123 N.J. Super. 179 (Ch. Div. 1973). This appeal is therefore deconsolidated from the related cases for the purpose of this opinion.