Abatement of suit on officer's term expiration

While it is true that the duty required concerns the state, the suit is against [the officer] as an individual, and he alone can be punished for the failure to obey an injunction, should one issue, as prayed for in the bill. ... a long line of decisions in this court has settled that the action abates upon the expiration of the defendant's term of office, and cannot be revived against his successor in office, in the absence of a statute so providing.