Nevada Paving, Inc. v. Callahan

*210OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, J.:

On June 8, 1965, Valentina Khochtaria died intestate following an accident in Reno wherein he was struck by a pickup truck driven by Sidney Lewis Curtis, an employee of Nevada Paving, Inc. The decedent left surviving a sister who lives in Tiflis, Georgia, U.S.S.R.

K. F. Callahan, the Public Administrator of Washoe County, was appointed special administrator of the estate of the decedent by order of District Judge John E. Gabrielli on June 24, 1966. He brought suit against Curtis and his employer. The defendants filed a motion in the estate proceedings for an…