Mabry v. Mabry

I do not subscribe to the proposition that the widow of an intestate, where there are distributees of the estate besides her and where she does not accept the appointment as administratrix, is entitled as a matter of right to name some other person to act as administrator of the estate. The statute, Code, § 113-1202 (1), gives the widow the right, superior to that of any one else, to be administratrix of the estate: "In the granting of letters of administration of any kind, the following rules shall be observed, the applicant being required, in all cases, to be of sound mind, and to be…