Where real property has been subjected to the payment of decedent's debts, and assets that should have been applied to the debts are afterwards discovered, or, for any reason, personal property of decedent, that should have been so applied afterwards comes to the hands of the personal representative, legatee or next of kin, the heir, devisee, or other person aggrieved, may maintain an action to procure reimbursement therefrom.
Code 1932, § 8211; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-620.
Textbooks. Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates (4th ed., Phillips and Robinson), §§ 849, 854, 863, 890.