                            NUMBER 13-09-00561-CV

                            COURT OF APPEALS

                  THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                    CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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SOUTHLAND FAB & OFFSHORE, INC.,                                              Appellant,

                                           v.

UNIQUE STAFF LEASING I, LTD.,                       Appellee.
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           On appeal from the County Court at Law No. 1
                    of Nueces County, Texas.
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                         MEMORANDUM OPINION

    Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Rodriguez and Garza
                  Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

      Appellant, Southland Fab & Offshore, Inc., perfected an appeal from a judgment

entered by the County Court at Law No. 1 of Nueces County, Texas, in cause number

06-62477-1. Appellant has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal on grounds that the parties
have reached a settlement and the appellant no longer wishes to prosecute the appeal.

Appellant requests that this Court dismiss the appeal.

       The Court, having considered the documents on file and appellant’s motion to

dismiss the appeal, is of the opinion that the motion should be granted. See TEX . R. APP.

P. 42.1(a). Appellant’s motion to dismiss is granted, and the appeal is hereby DISMISSED.

Costs will be taxed against appellant. See TEX . R. APP. P. 42.1(d) ("Absent agreement of

the parties, the court will tax costs against the appellant."). Having dismissed the appeal

at appellant’s request, no motion for rehearing will be entertained, and our mandate will

issue forthwith.



                                                 PER CURIAM

Memorandum Opinion delivered and
filed this the 19th day of November, 2009.




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