Section 43-2-271
Liability for assets upon resignation.
In case of resignation, the executor or administrator and his sureties are bound for all the assets not administered, which have not been delivered over to his successor.
(Code 1852, §1719; Code 1867, §2040; Code 1876, §2409; Code 1886, §2061; Code 1896, §108; Code 1907, §2577; Code 1923, §5800; Code 1940, T. 61, §173.)