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Opinion filed October 12, 2023

                                       In The

        Eleventh Court of Appeals
                                    ___________

                                 No. 11-23-00099-CV
                                    ___________

              PAMELA HOLBROOK BOOKER, Appellant
                                         V.
      PERMIAN AGENCY, INC.; JOHN R. MCKENZIE; AND
               XIAORONG ZHENG, Appellees

                     On Appeal from the 70th District Court
                              Ector County, Texas
                     Trial Court Cause No. A-21-10-1200-CV

                     MEMORANDUM OPINION
      Appellant, Pamela Holbrook Booker, filed a notice of appeal on April 26,
2023. According to the district clerk, Appellant has not submitted a request for
preparation of the clerk’s record, filed a designation of record, paid for the clerk’s
record, or made arrangements to pay for it. See TEX. R. APP. P. 35.3(a)(2). We have
granted three prior requests for extension of time to file the clerk’s record based on
Appellant’s lack of diligence in designating or paying for, or making arrangements
to pay for, the clerk’s record. Further, we granted in part Appellant’s “Motion to
Extend Time to Pay for Clerk’s Record” on June 29, 2023. We note that Appellant
is not indigent, as she conceded in her motion, nor is she entitled to proceed without
payment of costs. See TEX. R. APP. P. 37.3(b).
      When we granted her motion in part, we notified Appellant, by letter dated
June 29, 2023, that Appellant must resolve this matter by July 7, 2023, and that this
appeal would be subject to dismissal if Appellant failed to resolve this matter on or
before that date. See id. Appellant has not resolved the matter. On August 24, 2023,
we granted Appellant’s attorney’s motion to withdraw, which stated that he had been
“discharged from representing” Appellant in the appeal. We extended the deadline
for the filing of the clerk’s record to August 30, 2023.
      On September 1, 2023, we notified Appellant by letter that the clerk’s record
had not been received and that the failure to make arrangements for the payment and
preparation of the clerk’s record by September 22, 2023, may result in the dismissal
of this appeal for want of prosecution. See TEX. R. APP. P. 37.3(b), 42.3(b).
Nevertheless, Appellant has still failed to resolve the matter. Appellees have filed a
motion to dismiss the appeal based on Appellant’s repeated and ongoing failure to
comply with the notices from the clerk that require a response or action within a
specified time. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(c).
      We grant Appellees’ motion and dismiss this appeal for want of prosecution.
TEX. R. APP. P. 37.3(b), 42.3(b).

                                               W. STACY TROTTER
                                               JUSTICE
October 12, 2023
Panel consists of: Bailey, C.J.,
Trotter, J., and Williams, J.

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