Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-03-20 08:08:33.279664+00
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In the
          Court of Appeals
  Second Appellate District of Texas
           at Fort Worth
       ___________________________
            No. 02-23-00032-CV
       ___________________________

        JORGE PORTILLO, Appellant

                       V.

VICTOR SAPP AND DOMINIQUE SAPP, Appellees

     On Appeal from the 67th District Court
            Tarrant County, Texas
        Trial Court No. 067-319063-20

     Before Bassel, Womack, and Wallach, JJ.
       Per Curiam Memorandum Opinion
                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Appellant Jorge Portillo attempts to appeal from a take-nothing judgment

rendered on September 26, 2022.          Appellant filed a motion for new trial on

October 25, 2022, which extended the time for filing the notice of appeal until

December 27, 2022. See Tex. R. App. P. 26.1(a)(1) (requiring that notice of appeal be

filed within ninety days after the judgment is signed when a motion for new trial is

filed).1 Appellant, however, did not file his notice of appeal until February 3, 2023.

      On February 6, 2023, we notified Appellant by letter of our concern that we

lacked jurisdiction over his appeal because his notice of appeal was not timely filed.

We informed Appellant that, unless he or any party desiring to continue the appeal

filed a response in ten days showing grounds for continuing the appeal, we could

dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), 44.3. We

received no response.

      The time for filing a notice of appeal is jurisdictional in this court, and absent a

timely filed notice of appeal or extension request, we must dismiss the appeal. See

Tex. R. App. P. 2, 25.1(b), 26.3; Jones v. City of Houston, 976 S.W.2d 676, 677 (Tex.

1998); Verburgt v. Dorner, 959 S.W.2d 615, 617 (Tex. 1997). Because Appellant’s notice

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       Although the motion for new trial was overruled by operation of law on
December 12, 2022, see Tex. R. Civ. P. 329b(c), on January 4, 2023, the trial court
signed an order denying Appellant’s motion for new trial.

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of appeal was untimely, we dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. See Tex. R.

App. P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f).

                                                   Per Curiam

Delivered: March 16, 2023

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