Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-02-06 09:09:03.220911+00
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In the
                    Court of Appeals
            Second Appellate District of Texas
                     at Fort Worth
                 ___________________________
                      No. 02-22-00490-CV
                 ___________________________

                     TIM BOTHE, Appellant

                                 V.

  CITY OF FORT WORTH; CITY OF MANSFIELD; TARRANT REGIONAL
  WATER DISTRICT; TARRANT COUNTY; TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE
    DISTRICT; TARRANT COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT; ARLINGTON
   INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT; FORT WORTH INDEPENDENT
SCHOOL DISTRICT; AND MANSFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT,
                          Appellees

               On Appeal from the 96th District Court
                       Tarrant County, Texas
                  Trial Court No. 096-D31111-22

                Before Kerr, Birdwell, and Bassel, JJ.
               Memorandum Opinion by Justice Kerr
                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

       Appellant Tim Bothe filed a letter with us seeking to dispute “the total amount

due for delinquent taxes” claimed in a case still pending in the trial court. We have

construed Bothe’s letter as a notice of appeal.

       The trial-court clerk informed us that the trial judge has not signed an order in

this case. We wrote to Bothe to notify him that it appeared that his notice of appeal

was premature because there was no final judgment or appealable order. See Tex. R.

App. P. 26.1, 27.1(a). We gave the parties 20 days to provide us with a signed copy of

the order Bothe seeks to appeal, see Tex. R. App. P. 44.3, 44.4(a)(2), and warned that if

the parties failed to do so, we would dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction, see

Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f).

       Twenty days have passed, and we have not a received a signed copy of a final

judgment or appealable order. We thus dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction. 1

See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f); see Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191,

195 (Tex. 2001) (explaining that an appellate court has jurisdiction over appeals from

final judgments and from certain interlocutory orders made appealable by statute).

       1
        This is Bothe’s second attempted appeal in this case. See Bothe v. City of Fort
Worth, No. 02-22-00104-CV, 2022 WL 1682144, at *1 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth May
26, 2022, no pet.) (mem. op.). We dismissed his first appeal for the same jurisdictional
defect. See id.

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                                  /s/ Elizabeth Kerr
                                  Elizabeth Kerr
                                  Justice

Delivered: February 2, 2023

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