Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-01-31 15:09:06.693607+00
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                      NO. 03-22-00692-CV

    Ida S. Romero and Maria N. Romero-Piche a/k/a Nicole Romero-Piche, Appellants

                                                 v.

                   Hometown Kyle Homeowners Association, Inc., Appellee

             FROM THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO 3 OF HAYS COUNTY
   NO. 20-1307-C, THE HONORABLE CHRISTOPHER P. JOHNSON, JUDGE PRESIDING

                            MEMORANDUM OPINION

               The clerk’s record in this appeal was due for filing in this Court on May 27, 2022.

On December 6, 2022, we notified appellants that no clerk’s record had been filed due to their

failure to pay or make arrangements to pay the trial clerk’s fee for preparing the clerk’s record.

The notice requested that appellants make arrangements for the clerk’s record and submit a status

report regarding this appeal by December 16, 2022. Further, the notice advised appellants that

their failure to comply with this request could result in the dismissal of the appeal for want of

prosecution. To date, appellants have 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 appellants’ 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 appellants were entitled to proceed
without payment of costs. Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b). In this case, appellants have not established

that they are entitled to proceed without payment of costs. See Tex. R. Civ. P. 145. Because

appellants have 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.

                                              __________________________________________
                                              Darlene Byrne, Chief Justice

Before Chief Justice Byrne, Justices Triana and Theofanis

Dismissed for Want of Prosecution

Filed: January 31, 2023

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