If someone is owed money from an estate and the court order to pay them was not fulfilled, that person can ask the court to go after the people who co-signed the executor or administrator's bond. Those co-signers then have to come to court and explain why they should not have to pay the remaining amount owed.
473.577. against , when. — If an is ed unsatisfied, the may sue out of the court a scire facias against any one or more of the sureties of the or , referring to the , the of payment, the execution and return, and requiring the to why should not be rendered against him for the amount ordered to be paid and unsatisfied.
(RSMo 1939 § 227, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 204)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 228; 1919 § 227; 1909 § 236
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