Section 43-2-446
Notice to nonresidents.
If any of the heirs or devisees reside out of this state, such heirs or devisees may be brought into court by publication, once a week for three successive weeks, in a newspaper published in the county in which the application is made, or if none is published therein, then in the newspaper published nearest to the courthouse of such county.
(Code 1852, §1871; Code 1867, §2227; Code 1876, §2452; Code 1886, §2109; Code 1896, §161; Code 1907, §2625; Code 1923, §5854; Code 1940, T. 61, §249.)