Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2015-07-20 10:55:38.235381+00
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NUMBER 13-15-00149-CV

                                  COURT OF APPEALS

                     THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                         CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
____________________________________________________________

AKIKO N. SOUZA,                                                                             Appellant,

                                                    v.

LAURA JORDAN AND
WILLIAM JORDAN,                                    Appellees.
____________________________________________________________

             On appeal from the 131st District Court
                    of Bexar County, Texas.
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                              MEMORANDUM OPINION
                 Before Justices Rodriguez, Garza, and Longoria
                       Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

      Appellant, Akiko N. Souza, perfected a restricted appeal from a default judgment

rendered in favor of Laura Jordan and William Jordan that was signed by the trial court

on July 10, 2014.1 This Court previously abated this case for the purposes of medication.

      1   This case is before the Court on transfer from the Fourth Court of Appeals in San Antonio pursuant
The parties to this appeal have now filed a joint motion for dismissal and nonsuit.

According to the motion, the parties have settled and compromised their differences and

request that this Court dismiss the appeal.

       The Court, having considered the documents on file and the joint motion for

dismissal, is of the opinion that the motion should be granted. See TEX. R. APP. P.

42.1(a).   Accordingly, we REINSTATE this appeal.                The joint motion to dismiss is

GRANTED and the appeal is DISMISSED. Costs will be taxed against appellant. See

id. R. 42.1(d) ("Absent agreement of the parties, the court will tax costs against the

appellant."). Having dismissed the appeal at appellant’s request, no motion for rehearing

will be entertained, and our mandate will issue forthwith.

                                                      PER CURIAM

Delivered and filed the
16th day of July, 2015.

to a docket-equalization order issued by the Supreme Court of Texas. See TEX. GOV'T CODE ANN. § 73.001
(West, Westlaw through Chapter 46, 2015 R.S.).

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