Death of Nominal Plaintiff

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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.

Textbooks. Gibson's Suits in Chancery (7th ed., Inman), § 319.

Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates (4th ed., Phillips and Robinson), § 708.

Tennessee Jurisprudence, 1 Tenn. Juris., Abatement, Survival and Revival, § 29; 3 Tenn. Juris., Assignments, §§ 51, 53.

Cited: Timmins v. Lindsey, 310 S.W.3d 834, 2009 Tenn. App. LEXIS 731 (Tenn. Ct. App. Oct. 28, 2009).


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