Mo. Rev. Stat. § 522.020: Suits on official bonds — in whose name to be brought.

In all cases where, by the law of this state, any person is authorized to prosecute a suit to his own use, on any official bond, he shall sue in the name of the state, or other obligee named in the bond, stating in the process, pleadings, proceedings and record in such action, that the same is brought at the relation and to the use of the person so suing.