In the Estate of Daniel David Fells Jr., Deceased Appeal from County Court of Orange County (memorandum opinion per curiam)

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In The Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont __________________ NO. 09-22-00403-CV __________________ IN THE ESTATE OF DANIEL DAVID FELLS JR., DECEASED __________________________________________________________________ On Appeal from the County Court Orange County, Texas Trial Cause No. P19210 __________________________________________________________________ MEMORANDUM OPINION On November 17, 2022, the trial court signed an order appointing DonNiece Mann as the Independent Administratrix of the Estate of Danial David Fells Jr. and granting letters of administration upon taking and filing the oath as required by law. Windy Lynette Hammer Fells filed a notice of appeal. The County Clerk notified the Court that Appellant is not entitled to appeal without paying the fee and had failed to pay or to arrange to pay for the clerk’s record in her appeal. On March 28, 2023, we notified the parties that the clerk’s record had not been filed and we warned Appellant that we would dismiss the appeal unless she 1 arranged to pay the fee required to file the clerk’s record or she explained that she needed additional time to do so by April 27, 2023. See Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b). On March 29, 2023, the Appellees, Daniel C. Fells and DonNiece Mann, filed a motion to dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution. On April 27, 2023, Appellant filed a motion for extension of time to file the record. We granted an extension of time until May 30, 2023, to file the record. As of today, the clerk’s record has not been filed. In the absence of a satisfactory explanation justifying Appellant’s failure to arrange to pay for a clerk’s record to support her appeal, we grant Appellees’ motion to dismiss and we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution. See Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b), 42.3, 43.2(f). APPEAL DISMISSED. PER CURIAM Submitted on June 14, 2023 Opinion Delivered June 15, 2023 Before Horton, Johnson and Wright, JJ. 2

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