Kent v. Chase

Parks, J.:

The single question in this case is whether a Kansas probate court has jurisdiction to appoint a special administrator for a nonresident decedent for the sole purpose of enforcing a tort claim against him when the decedent owned no property located in Kansas, but had an automobile liability insurance policy which was physically located in the state of his residence.

The parties stipulated to the following facts: On December 20, 1972, Andrew T. Hicks, a resident of Suffolk County, New York, was killed in a one-car accident when the car he was driving overturned on Interstate Highway…