Jim Niblock v. Advantage Investors Mortgage Corporation

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: December 11, 2008
• Docket: 14-08-00924-CV
• Status: Published

Opinion

Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed December 11, 2008

Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed December 11, 2008.

In The

Fourteenth Court of Appeals

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NO. 14-08-00924-CV

JIM NIBLOCK, Appellant

V.

ADVANTAGE INVESTORS MORTGAGE CORPORATION, Appellee

On Appeal from the 240th District Court

Fort Bend County, Texas

Trial Court Cause No. 02-DCV-126083

M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N

This is an appeal from a judgment signed August 13, 2008.  The notice of appeal was filed on September 25, 2008.  To date, our records show that appellant has neither established indigence nor paid the $175.00 appellate filing fee.  See Tex. R. App. P. 5 (requiring payment of fees in civil cases unless indigent);Tex. R. App. P. 20.1 (listing requirements for establishing indigence); see also Order Regarding Fees Charged in Civil Cases in the Supreme Court and the Courts of Appeals and Before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, Misc. Docket No. 07-9138 (Tex. Aug. 28, 2007) (listing fees in court of appeals); Tex. Gov=t Code Ann. ' 51.207 (Vernon 2005) (same).

After being given the requisite ten-days= notice that this appeal was subject to dismissal, appellant has not paid the filing fee in accordance with our order of November 6, 2008.  See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3.  Accordingly, the appeal is ordered dismissed.  See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(c) (allowing involuntary dismissal of case because appellant has failed to comply with notice from clerk requiring response or other action within specified time). 

PER CURIAM

Judgment rendered and Memorandum Opinion filed December 11, 2008.

Panel consists of Justices Frost, Brown, and Boyce.