No failure to plead or make defense and no plea or answer made by a personal representative shall render him liable for more than the amount of assets that come to his hands to be administered, but the judgment of the court shall render him liable only for the amount of assets in his hands unadministered.
KRS 395.290
Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective10/1/1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 3866.