Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-04-26 06:07:42.055323+00
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VACATE and DISMISS and Opinion Filed April 20, 2023

                                    S   In The
                            Court of Appeals
                     Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                No. 05-22-00995-CV

                    COURTNEY ALSOBROOK, Appellant
                                V.
                     MTGLQ INVESTORS, LP, Appellee

                On Appeal from the County Court at Law No. 1
                           Rockwall County, Texas
                     Trial Court Cause No. CI1-22-0042

                        MEMORANDUM OPINION
                Before Justices Pedersen, III, Garcia, and Kennedy
                         Opinion by Justice Pedersen, III
      This is an appeal from the trial court’s final judgment of possession in a

forcible detainer suit. Asserting the appeal has become moot because appellant is

no longer in possession of the subject property, appellee has filed a motion to

dismiss.

      The only issue in a forcible detainer suit is the right to actual possession of the

premises. See Marshall v. Housing Auth. of City of San Antonio, 198 S.W.3d 782,

785 (Tex. 2006). Unless the tenant has a “potentially meritorious claim of right to

current, actual possession,” the issue of possession and the case become moot. See
id. at 787. When a case becomes moot on appeal, an appellate court must vacate the

trial court’s judgment and dismiss the case. See id. at 785, 790.

      Although appellant has had more than ten days to respond to appellee’s

motion, she has not done so. Accordingly, with nothing before us showing appellant

has a “potentially meritorious claim of right to current, actual possession,” we grant

appellee’s motion, vacate the trial court’s final judgment of possession, and dismiss

the case. See id. at 790.

                                           /Bill Pedersen, III/
                                           BILL PEDERSEN, III
                                           JUSTICE

220995F.P05

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                                  S
                           Court of Appeals
                    Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                  JUDGMENT

COURTNEY ALSOBROOK,                        On Appeal from the County Court at
Appellant                                  Law No. 1, Rockwall County, Texas
                                           Trial Court Cause No. CI1-22-0042.
No. 05-22-00995-CV         V.              Opinion delivered by Justice
                                           Pedersen, III, Justices Garcia and
MTGLQ INVESTORS, LP, Appellee              Kennedy participating.

      In accordance with this Court’s opinion of this date, we VACATE the trial
court’s September 14, 2022 final judgment of possession and DISMISS the case.

Judgment entered April 20, 2023

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