                         NUMBER 13-12-00343-CV

                         COURT OF APPEALS

                THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                   CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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VALLEY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER, IN ITS
ASSUMED OR COMMON NAME, PREVIOUSLY
NAMED AS VALLEY BAPTIST HOSPITAL,                                   Appellant,

                                       v.

SHARON SATTERFIELD, INDIVIDUALLY AND
AS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF
ALFRED DEAN SATTERFIELD, DECEASED,
AND TALMAN RAY SATTERFIELD, INDIVIDUALLY,          Appellees.
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             On appeal from the 357th District Court
                  of Cameron County, Texas.
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                     MEMORANDUM OPINION
           Before Justices Rodriguez, Benavides, and Perkes
                   Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

      Appellant, Valley Baptist Medical Center, in its assumed or common name,

previously named as Valley Baptist Hospital, perfected an appeal from a judgment
entered by the 357th District Court of Cameron County, Texas, in cause number

2011-DCL-5956-E. Appellant has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal on grounds it no

longer wishes to pursue this interlocutory 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

Delivered and filed the
16th day of August, 2012.




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