State Ex Rel. Pryor v. Anderson

Mandamus — on certification from the St. Louis Court of Appeals (see State ex rel. v. Anderson (Mo. App.), 112 S.W.2d 857, for opinion of the Court of Appeals), one of the judges of that court being of opinion the decision was contrary to the decision of this court in Cross v. Mullins, 307 Mo. 674, 271 S.W. 755.

The case involves the jurisdiction of respondent probate judge under the statutory law of this State to appoint an administrator of an intestate's estate having no resident distributee. The facts and the law are developed in detail in the opinion of the Court of Appeals and need not be…