20-5-117 - Death of nominal plaintiff.
20-5-117. Death of nominal plaintiff.
Where a suit is commenced in the name of one person for the use of another and the nominal plaintiff dies, the suit may be prosecuted without a revivor, as if the death had not happened.
[Code 1858, § 2858 (deriv. Acts 1825, ch. 29, § 3); Shan., § 4578; Code 1932, § 8703; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-621.]