Court Opinion

ID: 4417847
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Date Created: 2019-07-18 14:53:38.437785+00
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NUMBER 13-19-00228-CV

                             COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                      CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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PLAINSCAPITAL BANK AND ALBERT CHAPA,                                         Appellants,

                                            v.

ANDY HERNANDEZ,                                     Appellee.
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             On appeal from the 229th District Court
                    Of Starr County, Texas.
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                        MEMORANDUM OPINION
 Before Chief Justice Contreras and Justices Benavides and Longoria
              Memorandum Opinion by Justice Longoria

       Appellants PlainsCapital Bank and Albert Chapa attempted to perfect an appeal

from an April 17, 2019 order denying their motion to compel arbitration in cause number

DC-17-712 in the 229th District Court of Starr County, Texas. On May 17, 2019, the

Clerk of this Court notified appellants that it did not appear that we had jurisdiction over

the appeal and requested correction of this defect, if it could be done. See TEX. R. APP.
P. 37.1, 42.3. The Clerk further notified appellants that the appeal would be dismissed

if the defect was not corrected after the expiration of ten days from receipt of the Court’s

notice. Appellants have not replied to the Court’s notice.

       The State of Texas is divided into fourteen court of appeals districts with a court of

appeals in each district. See TEX. GOV’T CODE ANN. § 22.201(a). “Each court of appeals

has appellate jurisdiction of all civil cases within its district of which the district courts or

county courts have jurisdiction when the amount in controversy or the judgment rendered

exceeds $250, exclusive of interest and costs.” Id. § 22.220(a); see TEX. CONST. art. V,

§ 6. In this case, the order appealed from was not from a district or county court in our

court of appeals district. See TEX. GOV’T CODE ANN. § 22.201(n). Accordingly, we lack

jurisdiction over this appeal. See id. § 22.220(a); Kim v. State, 181 S.W.3d 448, 449

(Tex. App.—Waco 2005, no pet.).

       The Court, having examined and fully considered the documents on file, is of the

opinion that the appeal should be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Accordingly, we

dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(a),(c). All pending

motions, if any, are likewise dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

                                                                   NORA L. LONGORIA
                                                                   Justice

Delivered and filed the
18th day of July, 2019.

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