Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-03-05 08:10:48.443982+00
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Dismissed as Moot and Memorandum Opinion filed February 28, 2023.

                                          In The

                      Fourteenth Court of Appeals

                                 NO. 14-21-00452-CV

                        ZHILI “JENNY” ZHAO, Appellant

                                            V.
                          YUE “MARK” WANG, Appellee

                     On Appeal from the 295th District Court
                             Harris County, Texas
                       Trial Court Cause No. 2019-49317

                   MEMORANDUM OPINION
       This is an interlocutory appeal from an order denying a motion to compel
arbitration filed by appellant/defendant Zhili “Jenny” Zhao. See Tex. Civ. Prac. &
Rem. Code Ann. § 171.098(a)(1). After this appeal was perfected, plaintiff Yue
“Mark” Wang and defendant Zhili “Jenny” Zhao filed a joint notice of nonsuit with
prejudice in the trial court. In that notice, all parties in the trial court agreed that the
case should be nonsuited with prejudice. The trial court signed an “Order of
Dismissal With Prejudice” in which the court dismissed the case with prejudice.
      Rule 162 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure provides that “[a]t any time
before the plaintiff has introduced all of his evidence other than rebuttal evidence,
the plaintiff may dismiss a case, or take a non-suit, which shall be entered in the
minutes.” Tex. R. Civ. P. 162. As a consequence of the trial court’s dismissal with
prejudice of this case, the claims that were the subject of Zhao’s motion to compel
arbitration have been dismissed with prejudice, and this appeal has become moot.
See Gen. Land Office of State of Tex. v. Oxy, U.S.A., Inc., 789 S.W.2d 569, 571
(Tex. 1990); Deep Water Slender Wells, Ltd. v. Shell Int’l Expl. & Prod., Inc., 234
S.W.3d 679, 695–96 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2007, pet. denied).

      No party has sought to dismiss this appeal. We have given the parties ten
days’ notice of our intent to dismiss this appeal for want of subject-matter
jurisdiction due to mootness. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3. No party has filed a
response showing that this appeal is not moot. We dismiss the appeal as moot.

                                             PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Justices Spain, Poissant, and Wilson.

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