When there are goods and chattels in this state to be administered under a will of another state, district or territory, the executors, or some one of them, may qualify as executors, and they shall give bond, with surety, as required in cases where the will was made within the limits of this state, and they shall be subject to be proceeded against as in other cases.
Code 1858, § 2189 (deriv. Acts 1823, ch. 31, § 3); Shan., § 3921; Code 1932, § 8122; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-510.