Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-10-25 06:09:06.013819+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:48:47.061620
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Dismissed and Opinion Filed October 20, 2023

                                      In The
                            Court of Appeals
                     Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                               No. 05-23-00547-CV

                   PERFECTO RODRIGUEZ, II, Appellant

                                         V.

                          JUDITH SLAGLE, Appellee

                On Appeal from the 68th Judicial District Court
                            Dallas County, Texas
                     Trial Court Cause No. DC-22-06378

                        MEMORANDUM OPINION
                   Before Justices Molberg, Carlyle, and Smith
                           Opinion by Justice Molberg
      This appeal challenges the associate judge’s final judgment dismissing

appellant’s claims against appellee for failure to replead. Because an associate

judge’s judgment is not appealable until signed by the referring court, see TEX.

GOV’T. CODE ANN. § 54A.116(b), and nothing before us reflected the referring court

had signed the judgment, we requested appellant to file a letter brief addressing the

jurisdictional issue. Although appellant complied, nothing therein demonstrates our
jurisdiction. Accordingly, on the record before us, we dismiss the appeal for want of

jurisdiction. See id.; TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(a).

                                            /Ken Molberg//
                                            KEN MOLBERG
230547f.p05                                 JUSTICE

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                           Court of Appeals
                    Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                 JUDGMENT

PERFECTO RODRIGUEZ, II,                      On Appeal from the 68th Judicial
Appellant                                    District Court, Dallas County, Texas
                                             Trial Court Cause No. DC-22-06378.
No. 05-23-00547-CV          V.               Opinion delivered by Justice
                                             Molberg. Justices Carlyle and Smith
JUDITH SLAGLE, Appellee                      participating.

    In accordance with this Court’s opinion of this date, the appeal is
DISMISSED for want of jurisdiction.

Judgment entered this 20th day of October, 2023.

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