If a will has been deposited with the clerk of the district court for safe keeping and has not been delivered as provided in section 24 of this title, the clerk of the court, after the death of the testator, shall publicly open and examine the same, and make known the contents thereof, and shall file the same in his office, there to remain until it shall have been duly proved, if capable of proof, and then to be delivered to the person entitled to the custody thereof; or until required by the authority of some competent court to produce the same in such court.