(1) In any judicial proceeding, whenever it may become necessary for any party thereto to give a bond for any purpose, the bond of such party having as surety thereon any authorized surety insurer may be accepted, by any officer or court whose duty it is to approve such bond, without other surety. This section applies also to bonds given in connection with any appellate proceeding for the purpose of obtaining supersedeas or for any other purpose.
(2) A surety insurer may become surety upon administrators’, executors’, and guardians’ bonds; and in such cases there need be only one surety upon such bonds.