We find it unnecessary to pass upon that issue. Whether an application to relieve a default in filing a notice of election is based upon reasonable cause presents an issue for the sound judicial discretion of the Surrogate. Here the Surrogate found that respondent had little knowledge about the financial worth of decedent, who was his second wife. Because he believed the net estate would be small he was at first willing that it
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