West Virginia Code Chapter 44. Administration of Estates and Trusts § 44-9-4. Ancillary letters on estates of nonresidents supposed to be dead

Whenever letters testamentary or of administration shall have been granted in any other state, territory or country, on the estate of a resident thereof presumed to be dead on account of absence for seven or more successive years from the place of his last domicile, the person to whom such letters have been granted, may present a petition to the county court of the county in this State in which all or the greater portion of the estate of such supposed decedent in this State may be found, accompanied by a complete exemplified copy of the record for the grant of such letters, praying for the grant of ancillary letters testamentary or of administration upon the estate of such supposed decedent situate, owing, or belonging to him within this State; and the court may grant to some fit person, resident of this State, such ancillary letters, after notice shall be given in the manner provided for in the preceding section.