Court Opinion

ID: 4120804
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Date Created: 2017-01-30 10:13:39.473274+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:37:18.497845
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In The

                                Court of Appeals
                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
                           ____________________
                              NO. 09-16-00468-CV
                           ____________________

   JAMES K. COLLINS AND TONI SHARRETTS COLLINS, Appellants

                                         V.

                     D.R. HORTON-TEXAS LTD, Appellee
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                    On Appeal from the 284th District Court
                         Montgomery County, Texas
                       Trial Cause No. 15-04-04236-CV
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      James K. Collins and Toni Sharretts Collins filed a notice of appeal from an

order granting a motion for partial summary judgment. The appellee, D.R. Horton-

Texas LTD, filed a motion to dismiss because the order being appealed did not

dispose of all pending parties and claims. See Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39
S.W.3d 191, 195 (Tex. 2001). The Collinses argue the trial court’s order granted

more relief than requested but functioned as a final order. See id. at 206. The order

in question states that the Collinses “take nothing on their claims related in any

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manner to the Frederick Sieberman Survey A-497, Montgomery County, Texas.”

The order neither disposes of the appellee’s claims for affirmative relief nor states

with unmistakable clarity that it is a final judgment. See id. at 192-93. We conclude

the trial court has not signed an appealable interlocutory order or a final judgment.

Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P.

42.3(a), 43.2(f).

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

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                                                      HOLLIS HORTON
                                                            Justice

Submitted on January 25, 2017
Opinion Delivered January 26, 2017

Before Kreger, Horton, and Johnson, JJ.

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