Court Opinion

ID: 4452267
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Date Created: 2019-11-01 09:10:33.550958+00
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                      NO. 03-19-00521-CV

                      Carmen Lizarraga d/b/a Carmen & Co., Appellant

                                                  v.

   C. Sue Sharpe as Trustee of the Robert Dale Tindle Jr. Special Needs Trust, Appellee

               FROM THE 419TH DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY
        NO. D-1-GN-18-000909, THE HONORABLE TIM SULAK, JUDGE PRESIDING

                            MEMORANDUM OPINION

               The clerk’s record in this appeal was due for filing in this Court on September 16,

2019. On September 17, 2019, we notified appellant that no clerk’s record had been filed due to

her 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 September 27, 2019. Further, the notice advised appellant

that her 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 she 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.

                                             __________________________________________
                                             Chari L. Kelly, Justice

Before Justices Goodwin, Baker, and Kelly

Dismissed for Want of Prosecution

Filed: October 31, 2019

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