The successor of any public officer, or of the trustee of any estate, in whose name, as such officer or trustee, an action may be pending, may enter and prosecute the same in his own name in the same manner as his predecessor might have done had he continued in office.
(1949 Rev., S. 8340.)
Entry by judge of probate in action on probate bond. 17 C. 107. Similar federal statute construed and applied. 103 C. 39.