In re the Estate of Kotlik

Wingate, S.

In its former opinion in this case (152 Misc. 802) this court determined that since the former- wife of the decedent had not, so far as the record demonstrated, been known to be alive since 1920, and the decedent in 1923 commenced a relationship of apparently matrimonial nature with the petitioner, which continued until the time of his death, and from which issue resulted, it must be presumed that a valid marriage between the petitioner and decedent had been consummated, wherefore she was entitled to letters of administration upon his estate in preference to the mother of the…