Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-06-21 06:09:54.274018+00
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Dismiss and Opinion Filed June 14, 2023

                                       In The
                            Court of Appeals
                     Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                               No. 05-22-01173-CV

                        HENRY MISHKOFF, Appellant
                                  V.
                         SONIA BRYANT, Appellee

                On Appeal from the 471st Judicial District Court
                             Collin County, Texas
                    Trial Court Cause No. 471-01040-2022

                         MEMORANDUM OPINION
                 Before Justices Nowell, Goldstein, and Breedlove
                            Opinion by Justice Nowell
      We questioned our jurisdiction over this appeal from the trial court’s October

4, 2022 summary judgment order as the order did not appear to be appealable. See

Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 205 (Tex. 2001) (when, as here,

judgment does not follow conventional trial on merits, judgment is appealable if it

actually disposes of every pending claim and party or “clearly and unequivocally”

states it finally disposes of all claims and parties). As reflected in the record, the

parties asserted claims against each other. The order disposed of appellant’s claim

against appellee but did not dispose of appellee’s counterclaim against appellant or
contain language indicating it finally disposed of all claims and parties. See id.

Additionally, nothing in the record before us reflected the counterclaim had

otherwise been disposed.

      In jurisdictional briefing filed at our request, appellant does not dispute

appellee’s counterclaim remains pending. Accordingly, on the record before us, we

dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. See id.; see also TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(a).

221173f.p05                                 /Erin A. Nowell//
                                            ERIN A. NOWELL
                                            JUSTICE

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                           Court of Appeals
                    Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                 JUDGMENT

HENRY MISHKOFF, Appellant                    On Appeal from the 471st Judicial
                                             District Court, Collin County, Texas
No. 05-22-01173-CV          V.               Trial Court Cause No. 471-01040-
                                             2022.
SONIA BRYANT, Appellee                       Opinion delivered by Justice Nowell,
                                             Justices Goldstein and Breedlove
                                             participating.

      In accordance with this Court’s opinion of this date, we DISMISS the appeal.

      We ORDER that appellee Sonia Bryant recover her costs, if any, of this
appeal from appellant Henry Mishkoff.

Judgment entered this 14th day of June, 2023.

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