Miller v. Stiff

McGHEE, Justice.

This appeal raises the question whether a right of indemnity under a liability insurance policy issued to a nonresident decedent by a company authorized to do business in this state, and subject to process, here, is sufficient to support the appointment of an administrator for the estate of such decedent in the county in which he died following an automobile collision between his car and that of the plaintiff in which the plaintiff Miller was injured and his wife died.

Upon petition to the probate court of Chaves county by the plaintiff as a creditor, the defendant was…