Karen Court-Kennedy v. Texas State Roofing Company, LLC

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: May 2, 2024
• Docket: 13-23-00481-CV
• Status: Published

Opinion

NUMBER 13-23-00481-CV

COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG

KAREN COURT-KENNEDY, Appellant,

v.

TEXAS STATE ROOFING COMPANY, LLC, Appellee.

ON APPEAL FROM THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 4 OF NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS

MEMORANDUM OPINION

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

Proceeding pro se, appellant Karen Court-Kennedy1 filed an amended notice of

1 Appellant’s name appears in the record as Karen Court, Karen Court Kennedy, Karen Court-

Kennedy, Karen Court Olwell, and Karen Court-Olwell. appeal from a final judgment denying her bill of review. On March 21, 2024, the Clerk of

this Court advised appellant that her brief was due on March 15, 2023, that the brief had

not been timely filed, and that the appeal would be dismissed unless, within ten days,

appellant explained the failure to file the brief and the appellee would not be significantly

injured by a late filing. See TEX. R. APP. P. 38.8(a)(1), 42.3(b), (c). To date, appellant has

neither responded to the Clerk’s directive nor filed her appellate brief in this matter.

The Court, having examined and fully considered the foregoing sequence of

events, is of the opinion that the appeal should be dismissed for want of prosecution. See

id. R. 38.8(a); Nevarez v. Elguea, 181 S.W.3d 540, 541 (Tex. App.—El Paso 2005, no

pet.). Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution. See TEX. R. APP. P.

38.8(a)(1), 42.3(b), (c).

L. ARON PEÑA JR. Justice

Delivered and filed on the 2nd day of May, 2024.