Whenever an executor or administrator is removed or dies before the estate of the deceased is closed, a coexecutor or coadministrator, or if there be none such, a successor, shall be entitled to receive all the unadministered effects, including books and papers, which, at the time of such removal or death, shall be in the executor’s or administrator’s hands, or for which the executor or administrator is answerable, just allowances being made.

Code 1852, § ?1786; Code 1915, § ?3346; Code 1935, § ?3811; 12 Del. C. 1953, § ?1543; 59 Del. Laws, c. 384, § ?1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1;