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COURT OF APPEALS
EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
EL PASO, TEXAS

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STEVE BELARDO and RENE BELARDO,      )                     No. 08-05-00344-CV
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                                    Appellants,                       )                             Appeal from
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v.                                                                          )                      394th District Court
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MARY ELLEN KIMBALL,                               )                   of Brewster County, Texas
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                                    Appellee.                          )                           (TC# B7903-CV)

MEMORANDUM OPINION

            This appeal is before the Court on its own motion to determine whether it should be
dismissed pursuant to Tex.R.App.P. 37.3(b), which states:
(b) If No Clerk’s Record Filed Due to Appellant’s Fault.  If the trial court failed to
file the clerk’s record because the appellant failed to pay or make arrangements to
pay the clerk’s fee for preparing the clerk’s record, the appellate court may -- on the
party’s motion or its own initiative -- dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution
unless the appellant was entitled to proceed without payment of costs.  The court
must give the appellant a reasonable opportunity to cure before dismissal.  
 
            By a letter dated December 5, 2005, this Court’s clerk informed Appellants that no clerk’s
record had been filed and of the Court’s intent to dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution pursuant
to Tex.R.App.P. 37.3(b), absent a response from any party within ten days to show grounds for
continuing the appeal.  No response has been received as of this date. 
            We have given notice of our intent to dismiss the appeal, requested a response if a reasonable
basis for failure to pay or make arrangements to pay the clerk's fee for preparing the clerk's record
exists, and have received none.  We see no purpose that would be served by declining to dismiss this
appeal at this stage of the proceedings.  Pursuant to Tex.R.App.P. 37.3(b), we dismiss the appeal.

February 23, 2006                                                       
                                                                                    ANN CRAWFORD McCLURE, Justice

Before Barajas, C.J., McClure, and Chew, JJ.
(Barajas, C.J., not participating)