Bank of Jonesboro v. Wilson

1. The State of Georgia not having enacted any statutes setting up special procedure to enable administration to be had upon the estates of persons presumed to be deceased, so as to bring such administration within the due process of law clause of the fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States, “it is absolutely essential to jurisdiction of the administration of an estate that the person on whose estate such administration is granted shall be dead. Any administration upon the estate of a living person is void; and while it is true that the presumption of death arising from…