Opinion issued December 20, 2007
In The
Court of Appeals
For The
First District of Texas
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NO. 01-06-00761-CV
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EXECUTIVE MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., Appellant
V.
CHARLES E. GALLUP, Appellee
On Appeal from the County Civil Court at Law No. 1
Harris County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. 806526
MEMORANDUM OPINIONAppellant Executive Mortgage & Financial Services, Inc. timely appealed the trial court’s August 16, 2006 judgment and duly requested the preparation of a clerk’s record and reporter’s record for its appeal. We granted extensions of time to prepare the reporter’s record, and most recently, issued and unsuccessfully attempted to serve an order to file the reporter’s record or appear and show cause.
Executive Mortgage has informed us that, following our issuance of the unserved order, the trial court held a hearing and made findings that: (1) the reporter who recorded the proceeding no longer serves in the trial court; (2) due to physical infirmity, she is unable to prepare the record; and (3) as a result, no record of the proceeding exists for the appeal. Based on these findings, the trial court, in an order signed September 7, 2007, conditionally granted Executive Mortgage a new trial, set for January 7, 2008.
Executive Mortgage requests that we return the cause so that it may avail itself of the relief granted by the trial court. Accordingly, without regard to the merits, we set aside the trial court’s May 12, 2006 judgment and remand the cause for new trial.
PER CURIAM
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