473.150. Remaining executor or administrator to continue. - Missouri Statutes

Remaining executor or administrator to continue.

473.150. If there is more than one executor of an estate,and the letters of part of them are revoked or surrendered, orpart of them dies, those who remain shall discharge all theduties required by law respecting the estate, except that thecourt, if it finds same to be in the interests of the estate, mayrevoke the letters testamentary of the surviving executor, andissue letters of administration with the will annexed to thesurvivor and some other qualified person to whom administrationcould have been granted if original letters had not been issued.

(RSMo 1939 § 46, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 72)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 46; 1919 § 45; 1909 § 53