Contest of account - Showing of failure to discharge trust, etc.

Upon final settlement, any person contesting may also show that the executor or administrator has failed to charge himself with or to account for all the assets of the decedent received by him, or that he has failed to collect the same, or any portion thereof, or that by any abuse of, or failure to discharge his trust, such assets or any portion thereof have been depreciated, injured or destroyed.

(Code 1852, §1824; Code 1867, §2160; Code 1876, §2532; Code 1886, §2150; Code 1896, §218; Code 1907, §2679; Code 1923, §5912; Code 1940, T. 61, §308.)