Judgment affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
A medical examiner's determination that a decedent committed suicide is a quasi-judicial determination (see Gould v State of New York, 181 Misc. 884; cf. County Law, § 674, subd 4) and, hence, is reviewable in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78. In this case, the presumption that a decedent did not commit suicide (see Garrow v State of New York, 268 App Div 534, affd 294 N.Y. 741) was overcome...
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