Crater Estate

Hunter, J.,

— Decedent died

intestate on September 3, 1949, leaving to survive him a widow, Anna E. Crater, and eight first cousins. The widow claimed the estate, of the approximate value of $5,000, on account of her $10,000 allowance. The auditing judge found that she had forfeited her rights by wilful and malicious desertion.

The widow died while the case was pending, before her testimony could be taken, and her executor, Robert Reardon, has been substituted as a party and is ex-ceptant.

Decédent and wife married in 1915. They separated in 1918 or 1919, under circumstances unknown. He must have…