N.Y. Civil Practice Law & Rules § 1020: Substitution of indemnitors for executing or attaching officer

§ 1020. Substitution of indemnitors for executing or attaching

officer. Where an action is brought against an officer to recover a

chattel levied upon by virtue of an execution or order of attachment, or

to recover damages for the detention or sale of such a chattel, and an

undertaking indemnifying the officer against such acts has been given,

the court may order that the indemnitor be substituted for the officer.