Juan Armando Melgar v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “on the facts of this case an amended complaint adding the sheriffs’ department as a defendant relates back to the date of the original complaint and is therefore not barred by the statute of limitations if the original action was timely filed”
• explaining that as to the interpretation of Indiana Trial Rule 15(C) and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(C), it is “appropriate to consider federal authorities as guidelines in interpreting and applying the Indiana rule.”
• allowing relation back of an amendment to add an additional defendant after the statute of limitation had expired where the original action was timely filed
• “the basic goal of the trial rules [is] to promote decisions on the merits”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).