Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2015-07-30 05:35:37.472353+00
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COURT OF APPEALS
                                EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
                                     EL PASO, TEXAS

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DANIEL SMITH,                                                         No. 08-15-00073-CV
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                          APPELLANT,                                     Appeal from the
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V.                                                                  County Court at Law No. 2
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SCHWARTZ PROPERTIES, LLC                                            of Denton County, Texas
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                            APPELLEE.                                (TC# CV-2014-02613)
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                                 MEMORANDUM OPINION

       This appeal is before the Court on its own motion to determine whether it should be

dismissed for want of prosecution. Finding that the clerk’s record has not been filed due to the

fault of the Appellant, Daniel Smith, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution.

       Unless otherwise excused, a non-indigent appellant must either pay for or make

arrangements for the payment of the fees related to preparation of the appellate record to ensure

that the record is timely filed.    TEX.R.APP.P. 35.3(a)(2), (b)(3); see TEX.R.APP.P. 20.1(c);

37.3(b), (c). The clerk’s record was due to be filed on July 1, 2015. The Denton County Clerk

notified the Court that the clerk’s record would not be filed because Appellant has not made

financial arrangements for the preparation of the clerk’s record.

       In accordance with Rule 37.3(b), the Clerk of the Court notified Appellant by letter

regarding his failure to make financial arrangements to pay for the clerk’s record and advised
him that the appeal would be dismissed for want of prosecution unless he responded within ten

days and showed grounds for continuing the appeal. See TEX.R.APP.P. 37.3(b). Appellant has

not filed any written response or otherwise showed that grounds exist for the appeal to be

continued. Pursuant to Rules 37.3(b), we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution. See

TEX.R.APP.P. 37.3(b)(authorizing appellate court to dismiss appeal for want of prosecution if the

clerk’s record is not filed because appellant failed to make payment arrangements for preparation

of the clerk’s record).

July 24, 2015
                                            YVONNE T. RODRIGUEZ, Justice

Before McClure, C.J., Rodriguez, and Hughes, JJ.

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