Manner of administering and settling estate.

When letters are granted to a nonresident executor or administrator, the assets of the estate upon which such letters are granted, which may be within this state at the date of such letters, shall in all respects be administered and settled as if such letters had been issued to a resident executor or administrator.

(Code 1876, §2381; Code 1886, §2040; Code 1896, §84; Code 1907, §2560; Code 1923, §5783; Code 1940, T. 61, §145.)