John Preston Blalock and John Preston Blalock II, A/K/A Blalock Household v. Mercy Water Supply Corporation

Opinion

In The

Court of Appeals

Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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NO. 09-21-00041-CV __________________

JOHN PRESTON BLALOCK AND JOHN PRESTON BLALOCK II, A/K/A BLALOCK HOUSEHOLD, Appellants

V.

MERCY WATER SUPPLY CORPORATION, Appellee

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On Appeal from the 258th District Court San Jacinto County, Texas Trial Cause No. CV16,563 __________________________________________________________________

MEMORANDUM OPINION

On March 8, 2021, we notified the parties that the notice of appeal did not

identify a judgment or appealable order. The appellee, Mercy Water Supply

Corporation, filed a motion to dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. The

appellants, John Preston Blalock and John Preston Blalock II, a/k/a Blalock

Household, filed a response to the Court’s jurisdictional inquiry, but did not identify

1 any statutory basis for an accelerated appeal from an interlocutory order dismissing

some, but not all of their claims.

Generally, appellate courts review only final judgments and interlocutory

orders specifically made appealable by statute. Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39

S.W.3d 191, 195 (Tex. 2001). An appeal from an interlocutory order may proceed

as an accelerated appeal “when allowed by statute[.]” See Tex. R. App. P. 28.1. The

appellants failed to identify a signed order by the trial court that they may appeal as

an accelerated appeal. See generally Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 51.014.

We grant the motion to dismiss. The appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

APPEAL DISMISSED.

PER CURIAM

Submitted on March 24, 2021 Opinion Delivered March 25, 2021

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