In re Brancati

Henderson, S.

This is an application brought by a creditor of a missing person for issuance of temporary letters of administration upon the estate of such absentee, to three brothers of the absentee jointly with a New York trust company. The public administrator appeared herein and requested their issuance to him. The absentee was a physician, unmarried, a citizen, and at the time of his disappearance, a resident of Bronx county.

The only person entitled to share in his estate, if he is dead, is his mother, an alien who resides in Italy. He disappeared on *51November 19,1928. On the following day,…