Section 11

The Probate Officer may, on motion or petition or otherwise, in a summary way, whether any action or other proceeding is or is not pending before the Probate

Officer with respect to any probate or administration, order any person to produce and bring before him, or otherwise as he may direct, any paper or writing being or purporting to be testamentary which may be shown to be in the possession or under the control of such person.

If it is not shown that any such paper or writing is in the possession or under the control of such person, but it appears that there are reasonable grounds for believing that he has knowledge of any such paper or writing, the Probate

Officer may direct such person to . .attend for the purpose of being examined by him or upon interrogatories respecting the same, and such person shall be bound to answer such questions or interrogatories, and, if so ordered, to produce and bring in such paper or writing, and shall be subject to the like process of contempt in case of default in not attend-ing or in not answering such questions or interrogatories, or not bring in such paper or writing, as he would have been subject to in case he had been a party to an action before the

Probate Officer and had made such default.