Court Opinion

ID: 9402602
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-06-16 07:25:16.609019+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:20:01.154527
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals

                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                                NO. 09-22-00403-CV
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       IN THE ESTATE OF DANIEL DAVID FELLS JR., DECEASED

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                  On Appeal from the County Court
                       Orange County, Texas
                       Trial Cause No. P19210
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      On November 17, 2022, the trial court signed an order appointing DonNiece

Mann as the Independent Administratrix of the Estate of Danial David Fells Jr. and

granting letters of administration upon taking and filing the oath as required by law.

Windy Lynette Hammer Fells filed a notice of appeal.

      The County Clerk notified the Court that Appellant is not entitled to appeal

without paying the fee and had failed to pay or to arrange to pay for the clerk’s record

in her appeal. On March 28, 2023, we notified the parties that the clerk’s record had

not been filed and we warned Appellant that we would dismiss the appeal unless she

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arranged to pay the fee required to file the clerk’s record or she explained that she

needed additional time to do so by April 27, 2023. See Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b). On

March 29, 2023, the Appellees, Daniel C. Fells and DonNiece Mann, filed a motion

to dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution.

      On April 27, 2023, Appellant filed a motion for extension of time to file the

record. We granted an extension of time until May 30, 2023, to file the record. As

of today, the clerk’s record has not been filed. In the absence of a satisfactory

explanation justifying Appellant’s failure to arrange to pay for a clerk’s record to

support her appeal, we grant Appellees’ motion to dismiss and we dismiss the appeal

for want of prosecution. See Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b), 42.3, 43.2(f).

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                                           PER CURIAM

Submitted on June 14, 2023
Opinion Delivered June 15, 2023

Before Horton, Johnson and Wright, JJ.

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