Diamantopoulos v. Glekas

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the lower court overruling the appellant’s application to be appointed as sole administrator of the estate of Thomas Pappas, deceased, and appointing the appellee as administrator thereof. The decedent was a Greek citizen who died intestate in the city of Washington on March 5, 1925, leaving a personal estate amounting to about $15,000. He was survived by three brothers as his only next of kin and heirs at law, all of them being citizens of Greece. One of these, namely, William Pappas, was an alien resident of the District of Columbia;…