NUMBER 13-19-00228-CV
COURT OF APPEALS
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG ____________________________________________________________
PLAINSCAPITAL BANK AND ALBERT CHAPA, Appellants,
v.
ANDY HERNANDEZ, Appellee. ____________________________________________________________
On appeal from the 229th District Court Of Starr County, Texas. ____________________________________________________________
MEMORANDUM OPINION Before Chief Justice Contreras and Justices Benavides and Longoria Memorandum Opinion by Justice Longoria
Appellants PlainsCapital Bank and Albert Chapa attempted to perfect an appeal from an April 17, 2019 order denying their motion to compel arbitration in cause number DC-17-712 in the 229th District Court of Starr County, Texas. On May 17, 2019, the Clerk of this Court notified appellants that it did not appear that we had jurisdiction over the appeal and requested correction of this defect, if it could be done. See TEX. R. APP. *2 P. 37.1, 42.3. The Clerk further notified appellants that the appeal would be dismissed if the defect was not corrected after the expiration of ten days from receipt of the Court’s notice. Appellants have not replied to the Court’s notice.
The State of Texas is divided into fourteen court of appeals districts with a court of appeals in each district. See TEX. GOV’T CODE ANN. § 22.201(a). “Each court of appeals has appellate jurisdiction of all civil cases within its district of which the district courts or county courts have jurisdiction when the amount in controversy or the judgment rendered exceeds $250, exclusive of interest and costs.” Id. § 22.220(a); see TEX. CONST. art. V, § 6. In this case, the order appealed from was not from a district or county court in our court of appeals district. See TEX. GOV’T CODE ANN. § 22.201(n). Accordingly, we lack jurisdiction over this appeal. See id. § 22.220(a); Kim v. State, 181 S.W.3d 448, 449 (Tex. App.—Waco 2005, no pet.).
The Court, having examined and fully considered the documents on file, is of the opinion that the appeal should be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(a),(c). All pending motions, if any, are likewise dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
NORA L. LONGORIA Justice
Delivered and filed the 18th day of July, 2019.