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TEXAS RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE / RULE 98

TRCP 98: Supplemental answers

Supplemental answers may respond with special exceptions, general denial and previously unalleged new matter.

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The defendant's supplemental answers may contain special exceptions, general denial, and the allegations of new matter not before alleged by him, in reply to that which has been alleged by the plaintiff.