
    Estate of Margaret M. Berwick, Deceased, et al., Respondents, v State of New York, Appellant. Estate of Sebastian T. Pascale, Deceased, Respondent, v State of New York, Appellant. Norman B. Dix, Respondent, v State of New York, Appellant.
    Submitted June 4, 1990;
    decided September 19, 1990
   Motion for leave to appeal denied. The Court of Appeals restates the rule that denial of a motion for leave to appeal is not equivalent to an affirmance and has no precedential value (see, e.g., Matter of Marchant v Mead-Morrison Mfg. Co., 252 NY 284, 297-298 [Cardozo, Ch. J.]; Matter of Michael P. v Diana G., 75 NY2d 1003).  