Raymond Hicks and Janice Hicks v. Stanley B. Broussard

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: August 21, 2008
• Docket: 14-08-00356-CV
• Status: Published

Opinion

Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed August 21, 2008

Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed August 21, 2008.

In The

Fourteenth Court of Appeals

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NO. 14-08-00356-CV

RAYMOND HICKS and JANICE HICKS, Appellants

V.

STANLEY B. BROUSSARD, Appellee

On Appeal from the County Civil Court at Law No. 2

Harris County, Texas

Trial Court Cause No. 854718

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 January 16, 2008.  The notice of appeal was filed on April 15, 2008.  To date, our records show that appellants have 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, appellants have not paid the filing fee in accordance with our order of July 3, 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 August 21, 2008.

Panel consists of Justices Yates, Seymore, and Boyce.