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TEXAS RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE / RULE 34
TRCP 34: Against sheriff, etc.
Joining the principal and surety on an indemnifying bond when an officer is sued for an official act.
Rule 34, illustrated
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Whenever a sheriff, constable, or a deputy or either has been sued for damages for any act done in his official character, and has taken an indemnifying bond for the acts upon which the suit is based, he may make the principal and surety on such bond parties defendant in such suit, and the cause may be continued to obtain service on such parties.