§ 25-2101 Action on bonds or insurance; by whom and how brought

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25-2101. Action on bonds or insurance; by whom and how brought

    When an officer, executor, or administrator within this state, by misconduct or neglect of duty, forfeits his or her bond or
commercial insurance policy or renders his or her sureties liable, any person injured thereby, or who is by law entitled to the benefit of the security, may bring an action thereon in his or her own name against the officer, executor, or  administrator, and his or her sureties, to recover the amount to which he or she may be entitled by reason of the  delinquency. The action may be instituted and proceeded in on a certified copy of the bond or commercial insurance  policy, which copy shall be furnished by the person holding the original thereof.