An action brought by or in the name of any public officer shall not abate by the officer’s death, resignation, removal from office, or the expiration of the officer’s term, but may be prosecuted by the officer’s successor, if there be a successor who might have originally commenced and prosecuted the like action.

Code 1852, § ?2330; Code 1915, § ?4191; Code 1935, § ?4670; 10 Del. C. 1953, § ?3708; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1;