Estate of Sealy

Citations

• 1 Coffey 90

Syllabus

<p>Jurisdiction—Residence of Deceased.—The Issuance of Special Letters of administration to the public administrator in one county is not a final determination of his right to general letters of administration as against the public administrator of another county.</p> <p>Jurisdiction—Residence of Deceased.—The Issuance of Special Letters of administration leaves the jurisdictional facts still to be ascertained prior to the issuance of general letters.</p> <p>Jurisdiction—Residence of Deceased—Conclusiveness of Determination.—Where the public administrators of two counties each file an application for letters of administration, there being a doubt as to which county the decedent was a resident of, and one applicant contests the application of the other, the adjudication of the court that it has jurisdiction is a bar to the contestant's own application in the other county.</p>