§43-2-555. Stating account or compelling settlement by attachment.

If such outgoing executor or administrator or, if dead, his personal representative or, in case of his removal from the state, his sureties fail to make settlement within the time required by this division, the court may, of its own motion or on the application of any party in interest, compel him or his sureties to do so by attachment, or may state the account against him or his sureties from the materials on file or such other information as may be accessible to the court, charging him or his personal representative or his sureties with such assets as may have come into the hands of such executor or administrator.

(Code 1852, §1881; Code 1867, §2234; Code 1876, §2592; Code 1886, §2178; Code 1896, §246; Code 1907, §2697; Acts 1923, No. 492, p. 655; Code 1923, §5930; Code 1940, T. 61, §325.)