Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2020-12-07 08:18:44.022238+00
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NUMBER 13-20-00088-CV

                            COURT OF APPEALS

                  THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                     CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
____________________________________________________________

PRISCILLA J. MOLINA D/B/A
PLATINUM RISK INSURANCE
SERVICES                                                                    Appellant,

                                           V.

CONNIE HINOJOSA,                                    Appellee.
____________________________________________________________

            On appeal from County Court at Law No. 5
                   of Nueces County, Texas.
____________________________________________________________

                        MEMORANDUM OPINION
             Before Justices Benavides, Hinojosa, and Tijerina
             Memorandum Opinion written by Justice Tijerina

      Appellant filed a notice of appeal on February 10, 2020. On the same date, the

clerk notified appellant that the notice of appeal was not in compliance with TEX. R. APP.

P. 9.5 and 25.1. To date, the appellant has neither responded nor cured the defects in

the notice of appeal. On March30, 2020, the clerk notified appellant that her docketing
statement was past due. On April 15, 2020, the clerk sent a second notice regarding the

defects in appellant’s notice of appeal; however, the notice was returned undeliverable.

On September 17, 2020, the clerk sent an email to appellant requesting an updated

mailing address, and no response has been received.

       Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.1(b) requires unrepresented parties to sign

any document filed and "give the party's mailing address, telephone number, fax number,

if any, and email address." See TEX. R. APP. P. 9.1(b). Appellant has not provided this

court with a forwarding address. Appellant has not taken any action to prosecute this

appeal since February, 2020.

       Furthermore, Rule 42.3 permits an appellate court, on its own initiative after giving

ten days' notice to all parties, to dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution or for failure

to comply with a requirement of the appellate rules. See id. 42.3(b), (c). Accordingly, We

DISMISS the appeal for want of prosecution. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3.

                                                         JAIME TIJERINA
                                                         Justice
Delivered and filed this
3rd day of December, 2020.

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