In re the Estate of Mead

— Decree affirmed, without costs of this appeal to either party. Memorandum: VvTe do not find petitioner’s [respondent’s] failure, before he applied for letters of administration, to pay the State for the hospitalization of his wife to be the neglect or abandonment under section 87 of the Decedent Estate Law, which deprives him of a distributive share of the estate of his decedent wife. The fact that petitioner had instituted an action for annulment is not in itself án abandonment, nor does it ipso facto indicate that he would decline to assume the burden of support should the court deny him…