Michael Wayne Osborne v. Nathan Reynolds Jr.

In The Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont ____________________ NO. 09-15-00452-CV ____________________ MICHAEL WAYNE OSBORNE, Appellant V. NATHAN REYNOLDS JR., Appellee ________________________________________________________________________ On Appeal from the 172nd District Court Jefferson County, Texas Trial Cause No. E-197,332 ________________________________________________________________________ MEMORANDUM OPINION Michael Wayne Osborne filed a notice of appeal from interlocutory orders denying a motion for default judgment and denying a motion for a bench warrant. We notified the parties that our jurisdiction was not apparent from the notice of appeal and that the appeal would be dismissed for want of jurisdiction unless a response demonstrating this Court’s jurisdiction was filed by November 30, 2015. The appellant did not file a written response. 1 Generally, an appeal may be taken only from a final judgment. Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 195 (Tex. 2001). Interlocutory orders may be appealed only if a statute authorizes an accelerated appeal. Bally Total Fitness Corp. v. Jackson, 53 S.W.3d 352, 352 (Tex. 2001); see Tex. R. App. P. 28.1. The appellant has not filed a response showing that the trial court has signed a final judgment or an order that is appealable at this time. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3. We dismiss the appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 43.2(f). APPEAL DISMISSED. ________________________________ STEVE McKEITHEN Chief Justice Submitted on December 22, 2015 Opinion Delivered December 23, 2015 Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Johnson, JJ. 2