In re the Estate of Ostromislensky

Foley, S.

This is an application for letters of temporary administration upon the estate of Iwan Ostromislensky, a citizen of Moscow, Russia, under section 2596, subdivision 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The petition recites that the absentee has been missing since July 2, 1917.

I am not convinced that the absentee has disappeared or is missing, as prescribed by that Code section, “ under circumstances which offer reasonable ground to believe that he is dead, or that he' has become a lunatic, or that he has been secreted, confined, or otherwise unlawfully made away with.”

The reported…