Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2016-05-20 23:15:34.86281+00
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NUMBER 13-16-00189-CV

                            COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                      CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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DANNY HILAL,                                                                Appellant,

                                           v.

HARRIS COUNTY, ET AL.,                             Appellees.
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             On appeal from the 151st District Court
                    of Harris County, Texas.
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

             Before Justices Benavides, Perkes, and Longoria
                    Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

      Appellant, Danny Hilal, appealed an order rendered against him on December 15,

2015, in favor of Harris County and other defendants in a tax collection case. On March

16, 2016, the Clerk of the Fourteenth Court of Appeals requested that appellant remit the

$205 filing fee for the notice of appeal. The appeal was subsequently transferred to this

Court from the Fourteenth Court of Appeals pursuant to an order issued by the Supreme
Court of Texas. See TEX. GOV'T CODE ANN. § 73.001 (West, Westlaw through 2015

R.S.). On April 6, 2016, after the appeal was transferred to this Court, the Clerk of this

Court again requested that appellant pay the filing fee. On April 20, 2016, the Clerk of

this Court notified appellant that the filing fee was delinquent and advised appellant that

we would dismiss this appeal unless the $205.00 filing fee was paid within ten days. See

TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(c). Nevertheless, appellant has not responded to the notice from

the Clerk of this Court or paid the filing fee. See id. R. 5, 12.1(b).

       The Court, having considered the documents on file and appellant’s failure to pay

the filing fee, is of the opinion that the appeal should be dismissed. See id. 42.3(b),(c).

Accordingly, the appeal is DISMISSED for want of prosecution.

                                                  PER CURIAM

Delivered and filed the
19th day of May, 2016.

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