Lee Alford v. Yuvraj Khullar

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: August 29, 2024
• Docket: 09-24-00170-CV
• Status: Published

Opinion

In The

Court of Appeals

Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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NO. 09-24-00170-CV __________________

LEE ALFORD, Appellant

V.

YUVRAJ KHULLAR, Appellee

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On Appeal from the County Court at Law No. 1 Brazos County, Texas Trial Cause No. 6312-B __________________________________________________________________

MEMORANDUM OPINION

On April 18, 2024, Lee Alford filed a notice of appeal pertaining to a final

judgment in Trial Cause Number 6312-B. 1 But after perfecting his appeal Alford

failed to file a brief.

1 Alford filed his appeal in the Tenth District Court of Appeals. [But in March 2024, the Texas Supreme Court signed a docket-equalization order and transferred the appeal to the Ninth District Court of Appeals to equalize the appellate dockets. See Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. § 73.001. 1 On July 12, 2024, the Clerk of the Ninth Court of Appeals notified the parties

that Alford had not filed a brief and advised the parties that his appeal would be

submitted without briefs unless by July 22, 2024, Alford had submitted a brief and

a motion to extend the deadline in which he had to file his brief. We warned Alford

that if the Court submitted his appeal without briefs that the Court could dismiss his

appeal for want of prosecution.

On August 5, 2024, the Clerk notified the parties that on August 26, 2024, the

appeal would be submitted to the Court without briefs and without oral argument.

See Tex. R. App. P. 39.8. Because Alford has not filed a brief in his appeal assigning

any error to any of the trial court’s rulings, we dismiss Alford’s appeal for want of

prosecution. See id. 38.8(a)(1); id. 42.3(b), 43.2(f).

APPEAL DISMISSED.

PER CURIAM

Submitted on August 26, 2024 Opinion Delivered August 29, 2024

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