Grant of administration when more than one person entitled thereto; preference of whole blood over half blood.

If several persons of the same degree of kindred to the intestate, computed by the rules of the civil law, are entitled to the administration, and when several persons are equally entitled thereto, the court may, in its discretion, grant letters to one or more of them; except, that the whole blood shall be preferred to the half blood. When a married woman is entitled to the administration, it may be granted to her husband in her right.

(Code 1852, §§1670-1673; Code 1867, §§1988-1991; Code 1876, §§2352-2355; Code 1886, §2017; Code 1896, §59; Code 1907, §2523; Code 1923, §5745; Code 1940, T. 61, §84.)