Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-10-21 17:11:56.350639+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:01:36.851143
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NUMBER 13-23-00357-CV

                          COURT OF APPEALS

                  THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                    CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG

NINFA CASTANEDA AND
ELOY F. CASTANEDA,                                                  Appellants,

                                            v.

WILMA GARZA CHAPA,
INDEPENDENT EXECUTOR OF
THE ESTATE OF NINFA MCKINZIE,                                          Appellee.

              On appeal from the County Court at Law No. 2
                       of Nueces County, Texas.

                        MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Before Chief Justice Contreras and Justices Silva and Peña
                Memorandum Opinion by Justice Silva

       Ninfa Castaneda and Eloy F. Castaneda filed a notice of appeal on August 9,

2023, from an amended order compelling discovery entered by the County Court at Law
No. 2 of Nueces County, Texas, in cause number 2018-PR-00266-2A. On August 9,

2023, the Clerk of the Court notified appellants that the $205.00 filing fee would need to

be paid within ten days from the date of the notice. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(c). On

September 19, 2023, the Clerk of the Court again notified appellants that they were

delinquent in remitting a $205.00 filing fee and that the appeal was subject to dismissal if

the fee was not paid within ten days from the date of the notice. On September 20, 2023,

appellants filed a letter advising the Court that they believed the fee was due on October

7, 2023. To date, the filing fee has not been paid.

       Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 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 for failure to comply with a requirement of the appellate rules. See id. R.

42.3(c). The Court, having considered the documents on file and appellants’ failure to pay

the filing fee, is of the opinion that the appeal should be dismissed. Id. Accordingly, the

appeal is DISMISSED for want of prosecution.

                                                               CLARISSA SILVA
                                                               Justice

Delivered and filed on the
19th day of October, 2023.

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