When any nonresident dies, leaving assets in this state, if no application for letters of administration is made by a relative or creditor entitled thereto, an administrator of his or her estate, appointed by the competent authority of the state or territory of his or her domicile, shall be entitled to letters of administration on such estate in this state, upon the production of the letters granted to him or her by the state or territory of his or her intestate’s domicile, duly certified as required by law, in preference to any other person, upon his or her giving like bond and surety and upon the same terms, conditions, and requirements as are required by law of citizens of this state. The certified copy of his or her foreign letters shall be filed and recorded in the office of the judge of probate issuing letters in this state.
History: (Code 1886, §2039; Code 1896, §82; Code 1907, §2558; Code 1923, §5781; Code 1940, T. 61, §143.)