The executors, administrators and guardians appointed in such dissolved counties, who have not settled and closed their trusts, shall make settlements in the court of general sessions of the county that would have had jurisdiction if such new county had never been organized; and such persons may be proceeded against as if appointed in the old county.
Code 1858, § 87 (deriv. Acts 1849-1850, ch. 28, § 1); Shan., § 107; Code 1932, § 126; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, § 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-213.
Textbooks. Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates (4th ed., Phillips and Robinson), § 610.