Opinion
02-22-00490-CV
02-02-2023
Tim Bothe, Appellant v. City of Fort Worth; City of Mansfield; Tarrant Regional Water District; Tarrant County; Tarrant County College District; Tarrant County Hospital District; Arlington Independent School District; Fort Worth Independent School District; and Mansfield Independent School District, Appellees
On Appeal from the 96th District Court Tarrant County, Texas Trial Court No. 096-D31111-22
Before Kerr, Birdwell, and Bassel, JJ.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Elizabeth Kerr Justice
Appellant Tim Bothe filed a letter with us seeking to dispute "the total amount due for delinquent taxes" claimed in a case still pending in the trial court. We have construed Bothe's letter as a notice of appeal.
The trial-court clerk informed us that the trial judge has not signed an order in this case. We wrote to Bothe to notify him that it appeared that his notice of appeal was premature because there was no final judgment or appealable order. See Tex.R.App.P. 26.1, 27.1(a). We gave the parties 20 days to provide us with a signed copy of the order Bothe seeks to appeal, see Tex.R.App.P. 44.3, 44.4(a)(2), and warned that if the parties failed to do so, we would dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction, see Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f).
Twenty days have passed, and we have not a received a signed copy of a final judgment or appealable order. We thus dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction. See Tex.R.App.P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f); see Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 195 (Tex. 2001) (explaining that an appellate court has jurisdiction over appeals from final judgments and from certain interlocutory orders made appealable by statute).
This is Bothe's second attempted appeal in this case. See Bot.be v. City of Fort Worth, No. 02-22-00104-CV, 2022 WL 1682144, at *1 (Tex. App.-Fort Worth May 26, 2022, no pet.) (mem. op.). We dismissed his first appeal for the same jurisdictional defect. See id.