Court Opinion

ID: 9411577
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Date Created: 2023-07-27 07:08:36.920154+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:39:27.252404
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COURT OF APPEALS
                                EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
                                     EL PASO, TEXAS

  NICOLAS FIBELA,                                §
                                                                No. 08-23-00165-CV
                               Appellant,        §
                                                                  Appeal from the
  v.                                             §
                                                           County Court at Law Number 6
                                                 §
  KAREN WOOD,                                                 of El Paso County, Texas
                                                 §
                               Appellee.                       (TC# 2019DCV1242)
                                                 §

                                 MEMORANDUM OPINION

       This appeal is before the Court on its own motion to determine whether it should be

dismissed for want of prosecution. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3 (providing for involuntary dismissal

of civil cases under certain circumstances).

        On July 11, 2023, this Court received a letter from the District Clerk stating that the

Clerk’s Record had been ordered to be delivered on July 10, 2023, but that no payment had been

received and thus the record would not be delivered.

       On July 12, 2023, this Court received a letter from Appellant stating that, concerning

compilation of the Clerk’s Record, he had contacted the Court Reporter and made arrangements
for payment.

       On July 12, 2023, the Clerk of this Court sent a letter to Appellant stating that the District

Clerk was the one who notified the Court that no payment had been received. This letter further

instructed Appellant to make arrangements with the District Clerk for preparation of the Clerk’s

Record by July 21, 2023, or this case would be submitted for dismissal.

       On July 24, 2023, this Court received a letter from the District Clerk stating that the Clerk’s

Record had been ordered to be delivered on July 21, 2023, but that no payment had been received

and thus the record would not be delivered.

       On July 25, 2023, the District Clerk confirmed that Appellant neither paid for nor made

payment arrangements for preparation of the Clerk’s Record.

       Accordingly, we dismiss this appeal for want of prosecution. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(b),

(c) (providing for dismissal for want of prosecution following ten days’ notice and for appellant’s

failure to comply with a requirement within a specified time, respectively).

                                              LISA J. SOTO, Justice

July 26, 2023

Before Rodriguez, C.J., Palafox, and Soto, JJ.

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