§ 1712. By whom maintainable. The special proceeding may be maintained
by the general or testamentary guardian of the property of the infant,
by the committee of the property of the incompetent person or the
conservator of the property of the conservatee, or by any relative or
other person in behalf of the infant, incompetent person, or conservatee
or by an infant of the age of fourteen years or over in his own behalf.

The special proceeding may be maintained, in a case specified in
subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 1711, by a person entitled to the
conveyance; and, also, in a case specified in subdivision 4 of that
section, by the executor or administrator of the person who made the
contract, or of a person who died seized or possessed of the real
property or interest in real property, or by an heir or devisee of
either of those persons, to whom the real property or interest in real
property has descended or was devised. Where the proceeding is in behalf
of an infant of the age of fourteen years or over the infant shall join
therein.