§ 25-304.Parties to actions.

Section 25-304 supplies the main exception to the real-party-in-interest rule in Section 25-301. An executor, administrator, guardian, trustee of an express trust, a person with whom or in whose name a contract was made for someone else’s benefit, or a person a statute expressly authorizes, may bring an action without joining the person the action benefits. These representatives sue in their own name because the law recognizes them as having the authority to act for the underlying interest.

The section also covers public officers, allowing them to sue and be sued in whatever name the law authorizes for that office, and it lets official bonds be sued upon the same way. And it addresses assignees for collection: someone who receives a claim assigned in writing for the purpose of collecting it may sue on that claim, even though the assignment was made only to let them pursue collection rather than to transfer full ownership.

Read together, these categories describe the range of people the law lets stand in for someone else’s legal interest, from fiduciaries managing an estate or trust to public officials acting in their official capacity to agents holding a claim strictly for collection.