Opinion
02-23-00459-CV
02-22-2024
Haacker Corporation, d/b/a Floor Coverings International Flower Mound, Appellant v. Corey Norals, Alexias Norals, Beverly Crouch, and Thomas Crouch, Appellees
On Appeal from the 342nd District Court Tarrant County, Texas Trial Court No. 342-340147-23
Before Wallach, J.; Sudderth, C.J.; and Walker, J.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Per Curiam
Haacker Corporation, d/b/a Floor Coverings International Flower Mound, filed a notice of appeal from the trial court's November 1, 2023 order denying Haacker's motion for continuance and its November 3, 2023 order granting summary judgment for Appellees Beverly and Thomas Crouch. The orders did not expressly dispose of any claim by or against Appellees Corey and Alexias Norals and contained no language of finality. See Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 206 (Tex. 2001) (discussing language that can make an order final). Because neither order appeared to be a final judgment or an appealable interlocutory order, we notified Haacker of our concern that we did not have jurisdiction over its appeal. See id. at 195 (stating that "the general rule, with a few mostly statutory exceptions, is that an appeal may be taken only from a final judgment"); see also Tex. Civ. Prac. &Rem. Code Ann. § 51.014(a) (listing interlocutory orders from which a party may appeal).
Haacker filed a response asserting that it had filed a motion to sever the claims against the Crouches from those asserted against the Norals, and it asked this court to retain this appeal because a severance order would make Haacker's appeal "ripe and proper." We notified the parties that we would give them until January 29, 2024, to correct the defect in the record by furnishing this court with a signed copy of an order or judgment that made the trial court's previous orders appealable. See Tex.R.App.P. 44.3, 44.4(a)(2). We warned the parties that this appeal would be dismissed for want of jurisdiction if no order or judgment had been signed and furnished to this court by that date. See Tex.R.App.P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f).
We have not received a copy of an order or judgment that makes the appealed-from orders appealable. Accordingly, we dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction.