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.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 20-5-117
Death of nominal plaintiff
Code 1858, § 2858 (deriv
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