Court Opinion

ID: 4642501
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Date Created: 2020-12-14 08:17:24.595587+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:00:33.456133
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NUMBER 13-20-00386-CV

                             COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                      CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
____________________________________________________________

CHRISTOPHER MARTINEZ
AND ALL OCCUPANTS                                                          Appellants,

                                             v.

ANNA RODRIGUEZ,                                     Appellee.
____________________________________________________________

            On appeal from County Court at Law No. 5
                   of Nueces County, Texas.
____________________________________________________________

                        MEMORANDUM OPINION
   Before Chief Justice Contreras and Justices Longoria and Perkes
              Memorandum Opinion by Justice Longoria

       Appellants filed a notice of appeal on September 4, 2020. On September 8, 2020,

the Court notified appellants the notice of appeal was not in compliance with TEX. R. APP.

P. 9.1, 9.5, 25.1(d)(1), and 25.1(d)(4).   To date, the appellants have neither responded

nor cured the defects. On October 26, 2020 the court sent notice regarding the clerk’s
record to appellants’ last known address; however, the notice was returned undeliverable.

The Court has sent other correspondence to appellants, which has also been returned as

undeliverable and unable to forward.

       Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.1(b) requires unrepresented parties to sign

any document filed and "give the party's mailing address, telephone number, and fax

number, if any."   See TEX. R. APP. P. 9.1(b). Appellants have neither provided this court

with a forwarding address nor taken any other action to prosecute this appeal.

       Furthermore, Rule 42.3 permits an appellate court, on its own initiative after giving

ten days' notice to all parties, to dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution or for failure

to comply with a requirement of the appellate rules. See id. 42.3(b), (c). Accordingly, We

DISMISS the appeal for want of prosecution. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3.

                                                                      NORA L. LONGORIA
                                                                      Justice

Delivered and filed this the
10th day of December, 2020.

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