Richard Lance Bowe v. Steven Engelhardt, Engelhardt Law PLLC

Motions Disposed, Appeal Dismissed, and Memorandum Opinion filed June 27, 2019.

In The

Fourteenth Court of Appeals

NO. 14-19-00200-CV

RICHARD LANCE BOWE, Appellant V.

STEVEN ENGELHARDT, ENGELHARDT LAW PLLC, Appellee

On Appeal from the 311th District Court Harris County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. 2015-77061

MEMORANDUM OPINION

This is an attempted appeal from three orders. The first two were signed in Cause No. 2015-77061 (the cause number on appeal): (1) Order Granting Bill of Review, signed December 19, 2018, and (2) Order Denying Motion for New Trial, signed February 28, 2019. The third order was reportedly signed on December 19, 2018, in Cause No. 2005-12087A, and is titled Order on Motion to Dismiss.

A single appeal may not be taken from multiple trial court cause numbers. The

order in cause number 2005-12087A is not properly before the court in this appeal. Indeed, appellant has filed a separate notice of appeal from that cause number, and that appeal is pending in this court as appeal number 14-19-00323-CV, Bowe v. Bowe.

The only two orders arguably before the court in this appeal are the order granting the bill of review and the order denying the motion for new trial. “A bill of review which sets aside a prior judgment but does not dispose of the case on the merits is interlocutory and not appealable.” Jordan v. Jordan, 907 S.W.2d 471, 472 (Tex. 1995). The order denying the motion for new trial does not dispose of the case on the merits, either; rather, it declines to set aside the order granting the bill of review.

On April 25, 2019, we notified the parties that we would dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction unless any party demonstrated meritorious grounds for retaining the appeal. Appellant’s response does not alter our opinion that we lack jurisdiction over this appeal.

This appeal is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. All pending motions are denied as moot. Appeal number 14-19-00323-CV remains pending.

PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Justices Christopher, Bourliot, and Zimmerer