Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-08-15 10:08:12.639289+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:42:16.157552
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                       NO. 03-23-00264-CV

                                     Davario Pegram, Appellant

                                                 v.

                                     Britney Johnson, Appellee

       FROM THE 425TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY
      NO. 22-1657-F425, THE HONORABLE BETSY F. LAMBETH, JUDGE PRESIDING

                            MEMORANDUM OPINION

               The clerk’s record in this appeal was due for filing in this Court on May 31, 2023.

On June 6, 2023, we notified appellant that no clerk’s record had been filed due to his failure to

pay or make arrangements to pay the trial clerk’s fee for preparing the clerk’s record. The notice

requested that appellant make arrangements for the clerk’s record and submit a status report

regarding this appeal by June 16, 2023. Further, the notice advised appellant that his failure to

comply with this request could result in the dismissal of the appeal for want of prosecution. To

date, appellant has not filed a status report or otherwise responded to this Court’s notice, and the

clerk’s record has not been filed.

               If a trial court clerk fails to file the clerk’s record due to an appellant’s failure to

pay or make arrangements to pay for the clerk’s fee for preparing the record, the appellate court
may dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution unless the appellant was entitled to proceed without

payment of costs. Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b). In this case, appellant has not established that he is

entitled to proceed without payment of costs. See Tex. R. Civ. P. 145. Because appellant has

failed to pay or make arrangements to pay the clerk’s fee for preparing the clerk’s record, we

dismiss this appeal for want of prosecution.

                                               __________________________________________
                                               Edward Smith, Justice

Before Justices Baker, Triana, and Smith

Dismissed for Want of Prosecution

Filed: August 11, 2023

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