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Date Created: 2023-10-07 10:11:48.125522+00
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NO. 12-23-00157-CV

                          IN THE COURT OF APPEALS

               TWELFTH COURT OF APPEALS DISTRICT

                                     TYLER, TEXAS

CONNIE L. BRADLEY AND LUCAS                      §      APPEAL FROM THE 173RD
WILLIAM BRADLEY,
APPELLANTS

V.                                               §      JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

JAMES    DENNIS  MENIKETTI,
TRUSTEE OF THE VICTOR T.
MENIKETTI AND DOROTHY D.                         §      HENDERSON COUNTY, TEXAS
MENIKETTI TRUST,
APPELLEE

                                  MEMORANDUM OPINION
                                      PER CURIAM
       This appeal is being dismissed for want of prosecution. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(b).
Appellants, Connie L. Bradley and Lucas William Bradley, filed a notice of appeal on June 12,
2023. The clerk’s record was filed on July 11. On July 13, we notified Appellants that the
appeal would be submitted on the clerk’s record alone for failure to request the record, unless
proof of a written request for the record was provided by July 24. Appellants did not respond to
this Court’s notice or make written request for the record to the court reporter. On July 28, this
Court ordered that the case be submitted on the clerk’s record alone. Appellants’ brief was due
on or before August 28. On August 29, the Clerk of this Court notified Appellants that the brief
was past due. We further notified Appellants that the appeal may be dismissed for want of
prosecution unless a motion for extension of time, containing a reasonable explanation for the
failure to file a brief and showing that Appellee had not suffered material injury thereby, is filed
no later than September 8.
         The September 8 deadline passed, and Appellants have not filed a brief, a motion for
leave to file a late brief, or a motion for extension of time. Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal
for want of prosecution. See TEX. R. APP. P. 38.8(a)(1), 42.3(b).

Opinion delivered October 6, 2023.
Panel consisted of Worthen, C.J., Hoyle, J., and Neeley, J.

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                                   COURT OF APPEALS

      TWELFTH COURT OF APPEALS DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                           JUDGMENT

                                          OCTOBER 6, 2023

                                         NO. 12-23-00157-CV

          CONNIE L. BRADLEY AND LUCAS WILLIAM BRADLEY,
                             Appellants
                                V.
  JAMES DENNIS MENIKETTI, TRUSTEE OF THE VICTOR T. MENIKETTI AND
                   DOROTHY D. MENIKETTI TRUST,
                              Appellee

                                Appeal from the 173rd District Court
                    of Henderson County, Texas (Tr.Ct.No. CV18-0407-392)

       THIS CAUSE came to be heard on the appellate record; and the same being considered,
it is the opinion of this Court that this appeal should be dismissed for want of prosecution.

       It is therefore ORDERED, ADJUDGED and DECREED by this Court that the appeal be,
and the same is, hereby dismissed for want of prosecution; and that this decision be certified to
the court below for observance.

                    By per curiam opinion.
                    Panel consisted of Worthen, C.J., Hoyle, J. and Neeley, J.

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