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Date Created: 2023-07-19 06:07:36.381577+00
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DISMISS and Opinion Filed July 11, 2023

                                        In The
                             Court of Appeals
                      Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                No. 05-23-00370-CV

                   JEANETTE L. JOHNSON, Appellant
                                  V.
         1910 PACIFIC, L.P., BOXER PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
          CORPORATION, AND CRYSTAL ANGERER, Appellees

                On Appeal from the 160th Judicial District Court
                             Dallas County, Texas
                     Trial Court Cause No. DC-19-04827

                         MEMORANDUM OPINION
                   Before Justices Partida-Kipness, Reichek, and Miskel
                            Opinion by Justice Reichek

      Appellant appeals from the trial court’s April 20, 2023 order transferring a

county court at law case into the underlying district court case pursuant to local court

rules. We questioned our jurisdiction over this appeal because, generally, this Court

has jurisdiction over final judgments and certain interlocutory orders as permitted

by statute. See Lehmann v. Har–Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 195 (Tex. 2001); see

also TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 51.014(a) (listing appealable

interlocutory orders). A final judgment is one that disposes of all parties and claims.

See Lehmann, 39 S.W.3d at 195. A transfer order pursuant to local rules is neither a
final judgment nor an interlocutory order for which an appeal is authorized by

statute. See Chen v. Lushia, No. 05-22-00170-CV, 2022 WL 5434189, at *1 (Tex.

App.—Dallas Oct. 7, 2022, no pet.).

      Although appellant filed a letter brief as directed by the Court, she addressed

the merits of the transfer order instead of the jurisdictional issue. Because appellant

has failed to demonstrate this Court’s jurisdiction, we dismiss the appeal for want of

jurisdiction. See id; TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(a).

230370f.p05                                 /Amanda L. Reichek//
                                            AMANDA L. REICHEK
                                            JUSTICE

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                            Court of Appeals
                     Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                 JUDGMENT

JEANETTE L. JOHNSON,                         On Appeal from the 160th Judicial
Appellant                                    District Court, Dallas County, Texas
                                             Trial Court Cause No. DC-19-04827.
No. 05-23-00370-CV          V.               Opinion delivered by Justice
                                             Reichek. Justices Partida-Kipness
1910 PACIFIC, L.P., BOXER                    and Miskel participating.
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
CORPORATION, AND CRYSTAL
ANGERER, Appellees

    In accordance with this Court’s opinion of this date, the appeal is
DISMISSED.

Judgment entered this 11th day of July, 2023.

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