COURT OF APPEALS EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS EL PASO, TEXAS

KELLY ANN GERATH and SCOTT C. YOUNG , Appellant s ,

v. GENCO FEDERAL CREDIT UNION , Appellee. § § § § § § No. 08

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Appeal from the County Court at Law No. 1
of Mc L ennan County, Texas (TC# 2020 0431CV1 )

MEMORANDUM OPINION 1

On September 10, 2021, Appellants Kelly Ann Gerath and Scott C. Young filed a purported notice of appeal in the Tenth Court of Appeals

. T he notice specifically requested appeal of the trial court’s judgment “to the County Courts at Law of [ McLennan ] County, Texas.” To that notice, Appellants also a ttached a “S tatement of I nability to A fford P ayment of Court Costs or an Appeal
Bond

. ” On September 16, 2021, the Tenth Court of Appeals sent a letter to Appellants identifying
deficiencies with Appellants’ purported notice of appeal. First, the letter informed Appellants the
notice of appeal was de ficient because it did not properly name the Tenth Court of Appeals as the court to which the appeal was intended to be taken. See T EX

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. P . 25.1(d) (4) ( requiring a

1 This case was transferred from our sister court in the Tenth District of Texas at Waco ( C a u se N o. 10

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notice of appeal to state the court to which the appeal is taken unless the appeal is to either the First or Fourteenth Court of Appeals )

. Second, t he letter notified Appellants that no request had
been included with the Statement of Inability to Afford Payment of Court Costs which request ed
relief from the responsibility to pay c osts required to file an appeal , or from the responsibility to post an appeal bond , or both

. T he letter of September 16 informed Appellants that the identified
deficiencies needed to be corrected within ten days or the appeal would be dismissed. As of
Octo ber 6, 2021 , Appellants had not filed a response nor otherwise corrected any of the
defi cien cies noted by the Tenth Court of Appeals

. 2 On November 1, 2021, this C ourt sent a follow

- up letter to Appellants requesting an amended notice of appeal

. We also noted that a required docketing statement had not yet been filed
with th is C ourt. We notified Appellants that the amended notice of appeal and docketing statement would be due on or before November 11, 2021, and that failure to timely respond would result in
dismissal. See T EX

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. P . 42.3(c). As of today’s date , no response has been received and no amended notice of appeal has been filed

. Because Appellants failed to amend their defective notice of appeal , even after being
afforded a n opportuni ty to do so, and otherwise failed to respond, this Court has authority to dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution. See T EX

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. P . 42.3(c) (permitting involuntary dismissal in civil cases on appellate court’s own motion, after giving ten days’ notice, where appellant has failed to comply with the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, a court order, or a notice from the clerk requiring a response or other action within a specified time) ; T EX

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. 43.2 (f). We need not address Appellants’ Stat ement of Inability to Afford Payment of Court Costs or an Appeal Bond.

2 On October 6, 2021, the Tenth Court of Appeals transferred this appeal to this Court pursuant to a docket equalization order from the Texas Supreme Court.3

Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution.

GINA M. PALAFOX, Justice November 17, 2021
Bef ore Rodriguez, C.J., Palafox, and Alley, JJ.