58-2609. Bond of surviving partner.
Before any surviving partner or partners shall be entitled to demand of the heirs at law of a deceased partner conveyances pursuant to K.S.A. 58-2604 or to commence an action against minor heirs pursuant to K.S.A. 58-2606, he or she shall give to the executor or administrator (if any) of such deceased partner a bond, in such sum and with such surety as the judge of the district court of the county where the lands or the greater part thereof are situate shall in writing thereon approve as sufficient, conditioned that after settlement of the partnership business and payment of the partnership debts, and final accounting with all surviving partners and all executors and administrators of deceased partners, he or she will pay to such executor or administrator such sums as may be found due from him or her; and if there be several surviving partners, each of them severally shall give a like bond, to be approved as aforesaid, or in default thereof such as do give bond shall have the sole control of the assets of the copartnership, and until a final accounting be alone entitled to receive any portion of the avails of the sale of said lands.
History: G.S. 1868, ch. 109, § 20; R.S. 1923, 67-609; L. 1976, ch. 145, § 207; Jan. 10, 1977.