Stanley M. Moody v. Ted Ferritti and Jaymie Ferretti

Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed February 5, 2009

Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed February 5, 2009.

 

In The

 

Fourteenth Court of Appeals

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NO. 14-08-01050-CV

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STANLEY M. MOODY, Appellant

 

V.

 

TED FERRETTI AND JAYMIE FERRETTI, Appellees

 

 

On Appeal from County Civil Court at Law No. 1

Harris County, Texas

Trial Court Cause No. 915475

 

 

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 October 15, 2008.  The notice of appeal was filed on November 7, 2008.  On December 2, 2008, the trial court sustained the contest to appellant=s affidavit to proceed without payment of costs. 


To date, appellant has 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, 2009) (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, appellant has not paid the filing fee in accordance with our order of December 18, 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

 

 

 

Panel consists of Justices Frost, Brown, and Boyce.