League v. Churchill

The Court of Appeals certified the following question: “Under the act of 1894 (Ga. Laws 1894, p. 103, Code of 1910, §§ 3873-3880) can a foreign will be probated, and Geor*37gia property. willed thereunder be administered, only by such resident executor as may be named therein, or, if none, by a resident administrator with the will annexed, appointed at the instance of any heir, legatee, distributee, devisee, or creditor of the testator ? In other words, is the purpose and effect of the act of 1894 not only to require the domestic probate of foreign wills before Georgia property can be…