Court Opinion

ID: 4667563
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Date Created: 2021-03-15 07:19:44.814889+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:02:58.097846
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NUMBER 13-20-00475-CV

                                COURT OF APPEALS

                     THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                        CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG
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JAMES F. MCKINNON,                                                                   Appellant,

                                                v.

JUDGE STEPHEN B. ABLES,                             Appellee.
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             On appeal from the 216th District Court
                   of Gillespie County, Texas.
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                            MEMORANDUM OPINION
                Before Justices Benavides, Hinojosa, and Silva
                 Memorandum Opinion by Justice Benavides

       This cause is before the Court on its own motion.1 On January 25, 2021, the Clerk

of this Court notified appellant that the clerk’s record was past due. Appellant was further

advised that unless proof of arrangements to pay for the clerk’s record were provided to

       1 This case is before the Court on transfer from the Fourth Court of Appeals in San
Antonio pursuant to a docket equalization order issued by the Supreme Court of Texas. See TEX. GOV’T
CODE ANN. § 73.001.
this Court within ten days, the appeal was subject to dismissal. See TEX. R. APP. P.

37.3(b).

      On February 2, 2021, appellant filed an unrelated correspondence which neither

addresses his failure pay for the clerk’s record nor addresses the court’s notice. On March

3, 2021, the trial court clerk informed the clerk of this court that appellant has not made

payment arrangements nor made a deposit for the clerk’s record. Accordingly, the appeal

is dismissed for want of prosecution. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(b), (c).

                                                              GINA M. BENAVIDES
                                                              Justice

Delivered and filed on the
11th day of March, 2021.

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