Opinion
No. 04-15-00487-CV
11-13-2015
CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY, and Rodolfo C. Ramirez, Individually and as the Independent Administrator of the Estate of Ileana Ramirez, and El Milagro Minerals, Ltd., Appellants v. Leon Oscar RAMIREZ, Jr., Individually, and Jesus M. Dominguez, as Guardian for Minerva Clementina Ramirez, an incapacitated person, Individually, Appellees
From the 49th Judicial District Court, Zapata County, Texas
Trial Court No. 7,637
The Honorable Jose A. Lopez, Judge Presiding
ORDER
ConocoPhillips Company, defendant in the trial court, filed a notice of appeal on June 8, 2015. Leon Oscar Ramirez, Jr., Individually, and Jesus M. Dominguez, as Guardian for Minerva Clementina Ramirez, an incapacitated person, Individually, filed a notice of a cross-appeal on June 11, 2015. Other defendants in the trial court, Rodolfo C. Ramirez, Individually and as the Independent Administrator of the Estate of Ileana Ramirez, and El Milagro Minerals, Ltd., also filed a notice of appeal on July 29, 2015.
ConocoPhillips filed a Notice of Bankruptcy stating that on October 26, 2015, while this appeal was pending, Leon Oscar Ramirez, Jr., Appellee and Cross-Appellant in this appeal, filed a petition in bankruptcy, in Case Number 15-50164, in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Laredo, styled In re Leon Oscar Ramirez, Jr.
We order the appeal abated and removed from the court's active docket. See TEX. R. APP. P. 8.2. The appeal will be reinstated only upon proper motion and proof. See TEX. R. APP. P. 8.3; 4th TEX. APP. (SAN ANTONIO) LOC. R. 4. All motions and other documents pending or filed are abated subject to being reurged in the event the case is reinstated.
We further order the clerk of this court to send copies of this order to the clerk of the trial court, the court reporter, and the attorneys of record.
/s/_________
Luz Elena D. Chapa, Justice
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 13th day of November, 2015.
/s/_________
Keith E. Hottle
Clerk of Court