Dionne Z. Williams v. Advantage Real Estate

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: March 13, 2025
• Docket: 09-24-00254-CV
• Status: Published

Opinion

In The

Court of Appeals

Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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NO. 09-24-00254-CV __________________

DIONNE Z. WILLIAMS, Appellant

V.

ADVANTAGE REAL ESTATE, Appellee

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On Appeal from the County Court at Law No. 1 Jefferson County, Texas Trial Cause No. 24CCCV0516 __________________________________________________________________

MEMORANDUM OPINION

On July 24, 2024, Dionne Z. Williams filed a notice of appeal from a final

judgment in Trial Cause Number 24CCCV0516. But after perfecting the appeal

Williams failed to file a brief.

On January 17, 2025, the Clerk of the Court notified the parties that this Court

had granted Williams a fourth and final extension until February 3, 2025, to file

Appellant’s brief and warned her that no further extensions would be considered. On

February 3, 2025, Appellant filed a request for another extension and the Court

1 denied Appellant’s Fifth Motion for Extension and notified the parties that the appeal

would be submitted on the record alone without briefs on February 25, 2025. See

Tex. R. App. P. 38.8(a)(2) (If an appellant fails to timely file a brief, the appellate

court may dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution or decline to dismiss the appeal

and give further direction to the case as it considers proper).

After the case was scheduled to be submitted without briefs, we received

Appellant’s Sixth Motion for Extension of time to file her brief. We also received

an Opposition to the Sixth Motion for Extension. On March 5, 2025, we denied

Appellant’s Sixth Motion for Extension and set the appeal for submission on March

12, 2025.

We submitted this case without briefs. That said, in the interest of justice, we

have reviewed the entire record on appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 39.8; 42.3 (When the

appellant fails to prosecute the appeal “the appellate court may dismiss the appeal or

affirm the appealed judgment or order.”). Having found no reversible error on

appeal, we affirm the trial court’s judgment. See Tex. R. App. P. 43.2(a).

AFFIRMED.

PER CURIAM

Submitted on March 12, 2025 Opinion Delivered March 13, 2025

Before Golemon, C.J., Johnson and Chambers, JJ.