Court Opinion

ID: 9406192
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-06-30 07:09:39.319565+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:20:27.646423
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals

                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                                NO. 09-23-00096-CV
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                     JUAN ENRIQUE HURTADO, Appellant

                                           V.

                              PATTI JONES, Appellee

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                On Appeal from the 284th District Court
                     Montgomery County, Texas
                   Trial Cause No. 17-07-09255-CV
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Juan Enrique Hurtado (Hurtado) filed a notice of appeal from an order

directing the clerk to release funds from the registry of the trial court.

      On April 25, 2023, the District Clerk notified the Court that Hurtado had failed

to pay or to arrange to pay for the clerk’s record in his appeal. On that same day, we

notified the parties that the clerk’s record had not been filed and we warned Hurtado

that we would dismiss the appeal unless he arranged to pay the fee required to file

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the clerk’s record or he explained that he needed additional time to do so by May

25, 2023. See Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b).

      On May 16, 2023, through a notice issued by the Clerk of the Court, we

warned the parties that Hurtado had not remitted the filing fee and that unless he

paid the fee, the Court would dismiss the appeal without further notice on any date

after May 31, 2023. Hurtado neither paid the filing fee nor asserted that he was

unable to afford payment of costs. See Tex. R. App. P. 5, 20.1. None of the parties

responded to the Court’s notices.

      In the absence of a satisfactory explanation justifying the appellant’s failure

to pay the filing fee for the appeal or to arrange to pay for a clerk’s record to support

his appeal, 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 28, 2023
Opinion Delivered June 29, 2023

Before Horton, Johnson and Wright, JJ.

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