§ 253. Citation to attend judicial settlement of accounts of committee
or conservator. A citation may be issued by the court to all parties
interested in the estate of such incompetent person or conservatee, as
creditors or otherwise, requiring them to appear in court on some day
therein to be specified, to make proof of their several claims if they
be creditors, and to show cause why a settlement of accounts and
proceedings of the committee or conservator up to the date of such
hearing should not be had, and if no cause be shown, to attend the
settlement of such account. All such citations must be returnable in
court, and said court when not otherwise engaged shall always be open
for proceedings under this article. Such citations may be issued on
petition of such committee or conservator, or of one or more of his
sureties, or of a creditor of such incompetent person or conservatee, or
other person interested in said estate; and when issued on a petition of
a committee, conservator, or his surety, it may be issued at any time
after the appointment of such committee or conservator, in any other
case, after lapse of one year from the appointment of such committee or
conservator, or upon his removal or resignation. A citation issued on
petition of a creditor may be addressed to and served on the committee
or conservator alone, but on or after the return of such citation, the
committee or conservator may have a general citation issued to all
parties interested.