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<STRONG><CENTER>NO. 03-<A NAME="1">0</A>0-00673<A NAME="2"></A>-CV</CENTER>
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<STRONG></STRONG><CENTER><A NAME="3"></A><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman"><STRONG>Gwen Watts, Individually and as next friend of Catherine Phyl Watts, </CENTER>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman"><STRONG><CENTER>and Phil Watts Individually, </STRONG></SPAN><STRONG>Appellants</CENTER>
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<P><STRONG><CENTER>v.</CENTER>
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<P><STRONG><CENTER><A NAME="4"></A>Alfonso Roel Goreen and Travis County, Appellees</CENTER>
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<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><STRONG><CENTER>FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF <A NAME="5">TRAVIS</A> COUNTY, <A NAME="6">200TH</A> JUDICIAL DISTRICT</CENTER>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><STRONG><CENTER>NO. <A NAME="7">95-00287</A>, HONORABLE <A NAME="8">JOHN K. DIETZ</A>, JUDGE PRESIDING </STRONG></SPAN><STRONG></CENTER>
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<SPAN STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman">	Gwen Watts, individually and as next friend of Catherine Phyl Watts, and Phil Watts,
individually, filed a notice of restricted appeal to challenge a dismissal for want of prosecution. 
Appellees move to dismiss for want of jurisdiction.  We will grant the motion and dismiss this
appeal for lack of jurisdiction.</SPAN>

<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman">	The district court dismissed the cause for want of prosecution on March 29, 2000. 
The Wattses filed a motion to reinstate on April 27, 2000.  They filed their notice of restricted appeal
on September 26, 2000.</SPAN></P>

<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman">	Restricted appeals are not available to a party who timely files a postjudgment
motion.  <EM>See</EM> Tex. R. App. P. 30.  The Wattses' motion to reinstate, filed April 27, 2000, is a timely
filed postjudgment motion.  <EM>See</EM> Tex. R. Civ. P. 165a(3); <EM>see also Thomas v. Texas Dept. of Crim.
Justice--Inst. Div., </EM>3 S.W.3d 665, 666-67 (Tex. App.--Fort Worth 1999, no pet.).  Their notice of
appeal was due 90 days after judgment, on June 27, 2000.  <EM>See </EM>Tex. R. App. P. 26.1(a)(3); <EM>see also
Thomas</EM>, 3 S.W.3d at 666-67.  Their notice of appeal, filed almost six months after the dismissal, was
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<P>	We grant the motion to dismiss.  We dismiss for want of jurisdiction the Wattses'
appeal of the district court dismissals.</P>

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<P>					Jan P. Patterson, Justice</P>

<P>Before Chief Justice Aboussie, Justices Yeakel and Patterson</P>

<P>Dismissed on Appellees' Motion</P>

<P>Filed:   May 31, 2001</P>

<P>Do Not Publish</P>

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