Court Opinion

ID: 9374830
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Date Created: 2023-02-24 08:08:04.760445+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:16:53.404806
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In The

                                Court of Appeals

                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                              NO. 09-22-00398-CV
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               TOMAS CASTILLO BARBOZA JR., Appellant

                                         V.

                  GEICO CASUALTY COMPANY, Appellee

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            On Appeal from the County Court at Law No. 1
                      Jefferson County, Texas
                       Trial Cause No.137739
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Tomas Castillo Barboza Jr. filed a notice of appeal from a final judgment,

which the trial court signed on November 3, 2022.

      On January 3, 2023, the County Clerk notified the Court that Barboza had

failed to pay or to arrange to pay for the clerk’s record in his appeal. On that same

day, we notified the parties that the clerk’s record had not been filed and we warned

Barboza that we would dismiss the appeal unless he arranged to pay the fee required

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to file the clerk’s record or he explained that he needed additional time to do so by

February 2, 2023. See Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b).

      On January 18, 2023, through a notice issued by the Clerk of the Court, we

warned the parties that Barboza had not remitted the filing fee and that unless he

paid the fee, the Court would dismiss the appeal without further notice on any date

after February 2, 2023. Barboza neither paid the filing fee nor asserted that he was

unable to afford payment of costs. See Tex. R. App. P. 5, 20.1. None of the parties

responded to the Court’s notices.

      In the absence of a satisfactory explanation justifying the appellant’s failure

to pay the filing fee for the appeal or to arrange to pay for a clerk’s record to support

his appeal, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution. See Tex. R. App. P.

37.3(b), 42.3, 43.2(f).

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                                             PER CURIAM

Submitted on February 22, 2023
Opinion Delivered February 23, 2023

Before Golemon, C.J., Horton and Wright, JJ.

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