In The
Court of Appeals
Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana
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No. 06-05-00111-CV
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CHARLES A. LOPEZ, Appellant
V.
JOHN A. RUPERT, ET AL., Appellees
On Appeal from the 202nd Judicial District Court
Bowie County, Texas
Trial Court No. 95C09734-202
Before Morriss, C.J., Ross and Carter, JJ.
Memorandum Opinion by Chief Justice Morriss
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Charles A. Lopez seeks appellate review of a trial court's order denying Lopez' motion to amend a plaintiff's petition. The order denying Lopez' motion does not constitute a final order of the case. Lopez' appeal, therefore, amounts to the appeal of an interlocutory order. See Black's Law Dictionary 832 (8th ed. 2004).
This Court has jurisdiction over appeals from interlocutory orders only in limited circumstances. See Tex. R. App. P. 28.1; Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 51.014 (Vernon Supp. 2004–2005). The appeal of a trial court's denial of a motion to amend a plaintiff's petition is not an interlocutory order over which this Court has been granted jurisdiction. Thus, to the extent Lopez now seeks appellate review of the trial court's denial of his motion to amend his original petition, this Court lacks such jurisdiction. Accordingly, we dismiss this appeal.
Josh R. Morriss, III
Chief Justice
Date Submitted: September 12, 2005
Date Decided: October 7, 2005