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<p><font size="+1"><strong><center>TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN</strong></font></center>


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<strong><center>NO. 03-0<a name="1">0</a>-00<a name="2">051</a>-CV</center>
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<strong><center><a name="3">Lloyd Homer Fikes</a>, Appellant</center>
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<p><strong><center>v.</center>
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<p align="center"><strong>Texas Department of Agriculture, Individually as Equitable and Statutory Subrogee of
Kay Dee Produce</a>, Appellee</strong>

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<center>FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF <a name="5">TRAVIS </a>COUNTY, <a name="6">250TH</a> JUDICIAL DISTRICT</center>
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<p><strong><center>NO. <a name="7">96-02037</a>, HONORABLE <a name="8">SUZANNE COVINGTON</a>, JUDGE PRESIDING </center>
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PER CURIAM</strong>

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<p>	Appellee Texas Department of Agriculture, individually as equitable and statutory
subrogee of Kay Dee Produce, moves this Court to dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution. 
<em>See</em> Tex. R. App. P. 38.8(a)(1), 42.3(b).  We will grant the motion.

<p>	The Clerk of this Court filed the clerk's record in this cause on August 31, 2000. 
Accordingly, appellant Lloyd Homer Fikes's brief was due on October 2.  <em>Id</em>. 38.6(a).  Pursuant
to a request for an extension of time, Fikes's brief was due to be filed on November 29.  When
Fikes failed to tender a brief by that date, this Court ordered him to file a brief by December 21,
2000, failing which his appeal would be dismissed.

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<p>	To date, Fikes has failed to tender a brief.  We therefore grant the Department's
motion.  We dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution.  <em>Id.</em> 42.3(b).

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<p>Before Justices Kidd, B. A. Smith and Puryear

<p>Dismissed for Want of Prosecution on Appellee's Motion

<p>Filed:   February 15, 2001

<p>Do Not Publish
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