§44-4-20. Disbursement of balance after settlement; suit to compel disbursement; final report of fiduciary following disbursement.

When a county commission has confirmed, either in whole or in a qualified manner, a report of the accounts of any personal representative guardian, curator, committee as aforesaid, the county commission may order payment of what appears due on the accounts to such persons as would be entitled to recover the same by a suit in equity. If the order is not complied with, any person interested may bring a suit in chancery in the circuit court of the county wherein such order was made, to compel compliance therewith. In such suit the commission’s order shall be taken as prima facie correct, and there shall be a decree according to the order except so far as it may appear upon proper pleadings and proof to be erroneous. If any fiduciary makes any payment in accordance with the order of the county commission more than three months after the order was made, and before suit has been commenced under this section, the payment shall not be disturbed nor shall the fiduciary be in anywise liable with respect thereto. And when the personal representative, guardian, curator or committee or other fiduciary has fully paid out all the funds in his hands he shall within ninety days thereafter, or at the first term of the commission thereafter, make a final, full and detailed report to the commission of such payments, and file therewith the vouchers for such disbursements; and when the commission, upon examination of such report and vouchers, ascertains the same to be correct, it shall approve and confirm such report and order the same to be recorded. The clerk of the commission shall record every such report which may be so confirmed, and at the foot of it the order of confirmation. It shall be the duty of the fiduciary commissioner who made the report in this section first mentioned, to require that the fiduciary renders, in proper form, the final report herein required, and, in case of the failure of the fiduciary to render a final report, he shall be proceeded against in the same manner, and be subject to the same penalties, as a fiduciary who fails to return an inventory or to lay his accounts before a fiduciary commissioner for settlement.