                                        In The

                                 Court of Appeals
                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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                               NO. 09-14-00215-CV
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                           IN THE INTEREST OF D.C.

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                    On Appeal from the 359th District Court
                         Montgomery County, Texas
                       Trial Cause No. 11-04-03639 CV
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      The appellant filed a notice of appeal but failed to file a brief. We notified

the parties that the brief of the appellant had not been filed and warned the

appellant that his failure to file a brief could result in a dismissal of the appeal for

want of prosecution. See Tex. R. App. P. 38.8(a)(1). We notified the parties that

the appeal would be submitted to the Court without oral argument. See Tex. R.

App. P. 39.8. Appellant did not respond to this Court’s notices.

      “A court of appeals may not reverse a trial court’s judgment in the absence

of properly assigned error.” San Jacinto River Auth. v. Duke, 783 S.W.2d 209, 210

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(Tex. 1990). In the absence of a brief assigning error for appellate review, we

dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution. Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(b).

      APPEAL DISMISSED.



                                             ________________________________
                                                       LEANNE JOHNSON
                                                           Justice


Submitted on October 15, 2014
Opinion Delivered October 16, 2014

Before McKeithen, C.J., Horton and Johnson, JJ.




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