513.330. When any officer shall die, or be removed fromoffice, or be otherwise disqualified from acting, after havingtaken in execution any goods and chattels, real estate or othereffects, and before sale thereof, the sheriff or coroner then inoffice shall proceed therein, and do and perform all thingsremaining to be done and performed in relation to such executionand the sale of such property, and in making and executing deedsand conveyances therefor, in the same manner and with the likeeffect as the officer so deceased, removed from office ordisqualified, could have done.
(RSMo 1939 § 1382)Prior revisions: 1929 § 1218; 1919 § 1669; 1909 § 2238