KRS 413.230: Sureties who are discharged after five years.

A surety for an executor, administrator, guardian or curator, or for a sheriff to whom a

decedent's estate has been transferred, shall be discharged from all liability to a

distributee, devisee or ward when five (5) years have elapsed without suit after th e cause

of action accrued, and after the devisee, distributee or ward attained full age. But the

failure of one to commence action in time shall not affect the right of another.