Evans v. del Castillo

Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.

The question here presented is the power of the St. Francis Probate Court to appoint the Mexican Consul (appellee) as administrator of the Estate of Rogelio Mejia, a Mexican National.

On October 8, 1951-, appellee, A. Cano del Castillo (hereinafter referred to as “Mexican Consul”), filed in the St. Francis Probate Court, his petition, alleging that Rogelio Mejia, a National (Citizen) of Mexico, died intestate in, and a resident of, St. Francis County, Arkansas, on October 8, 1949, survived by his father, brother and sister, all non-residents of Arkansas; that appellee,…