Reissuance of Documents

An action may be maintained by any person interested in any private document or instrument in writing, which has been lost, destroyed or damaged by conflagration or other public calamity, to prove, establish, compel the reissuance, reexecution, and reacknowledgment of such document or instrument. If such document or instrument be a negotiable instrument, the court must compel the person in whose favor it is drawn to give a bond executed by himself and two sufficient sureties to indemnify the person reissuing, reexecuting, or reacknowledging the same against any lawful claim thereon.