Loeb v. Callaway

SIMPSON, Justice.

The appeal arises from a contest for letters of administration on the estate of the intestate, E. H. Clay, of Elmore County, Alabama, between the partnership appellants, as his largest creditor, and the appellee, Mrs. Callaway, his sister and next of kin who, under the statute, Code 1940, Title 61, § 84, nominated her husband, the other appellee, to act in her right.

Mr. Clay left no children and his widow renounced her preferential right to appointment. The court, ■ adjudging Mrs. Calla-way to be the next in order of preference, on her nomination of her husband, as she had…