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13-04-636-CV
 
                         COURT OF APPEALS
 
               THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
 
                  CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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ELSA
SLANEY, ET AL.,                                            Appellants,
 
                                           v.
 
RENEE
M. LIVESAY AND KEITH LIVESAY,                    Appellees.
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                On appeal from County
Court at Law No. 2
                           of Hidalgo
County, Texas.
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                     MEMORANDUM OPINION
 
                Before Justices
Hinojosa, Yañez, and Garza
                       Memorandum Opinion Per
Curiam
 




Appellants, ELSA SLANEY, ET AL., perfected an appeal from a judgment entered by
County Court at Law No. 2 of Hidalgo County,
Texas, in cause number CL-04-582-B.  The clerk=s record was filed on December 3,
2004.  The reporter=s record was filed on December 17, 2004. 
Appellants= brief was due on June 30, 2005.  To date, no
appellate brief has been received.
When the appellant has
failed to file a brief in the time prescribed, the Court may dismiss the appeal
for want of prosecution, unless the appellant reasonably explains the failure
and the appellee is not significantly injured by the appellant=s failure to timely
file a brief.  Tex. R. App. P. 38.8(a)(1).
On August
1, 2005, notice was given to all parties that this appeal was subject to
dismissal pursuant to Tex. R. App. P. 38.8(a)(1).  Appellants were given ten days to explain why
the cause should not be dismissed for failure to file a brief.  To date, no response has been received.
The Court, having
examined and fully considered the documents on file, appellants= failure to file a
proper appellate brief, this Court=s notice, and
appellants= failure to respond,
is of the opinion that the appeal should be dismissed for want of
prosecution.  The appeal is hereby
DISMISSED FOR WANT OF PROSECUTION.
PER CURIAM
 
Memorandum Opinion delivered and filed
this the 30th day of August, 2005
 
 
 

