Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2018-08-01 14:52:24.317645+00
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                      NO. 03-18-00206-CV

                                 John Mason Hughes, Appellant

                                                 v.

                           Michael Twiehaus, Maria Twiehaus, and
                         Twiehaus Irrevocable Living Trust, Appellees

            FROM THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 1 OF TRAVIS COUNTY
      NO. C-1-CV-16-011428, THE HONORABLE ERIC SHEPPERD, JUDGE PRESIDING

                            MEMORANDUM OPINION

               The clerk’s record in this appeal was due for filing in this Court on March 13,

2018. On May 14, 2018, we notified appellant that no clerk’s record had been filed due to his

failure to pay or make arrangements to pay the trial-court 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 May 24, 2018. 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, this appeal is dismissed for want of prosecution.

                                             _________________________________________________
                                             Jeff Rose, Chief Justice

Before Chief Justice Rose, Justices Pemberton and Field

Dismissed for Want of Prosecution

Filed: July 31, 2018

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