A petition for letters testamentary or letters of administration may be filed by any relative, creditor or other person interested in the estate of said absent person:

1st: In the county in which said absent person was a resident at the time of his disappearance.

2nd: In the county in which said absent person did, at the time of his disappearance, have property, either real or personal.

Laws 1937, HB 501, p. 5, § 2, emerg. eff. May 22, 1937.