Procopio Hinojosa and Henry Hinojosa, Individually and as Next of Friend of Luis Hinojosa, a Minor v. Farmers Texas County Mutual Insurance Company ( 2012 )

MEMORANDUM OPINION
No. 04-12-00221-CV
Procopio HINOJOSA and Henry Hinojosa, Individually and as next Friend of Luis Hinojosa,
a Minor Child,
Appellants
v.
FARMERS TEXAS COUNTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
Appellee
From the 49th Judicial District Court, Zapata County, Texas
Trial Court No. 6978
Honorable Jose A. Lopez, Judge Presiding
PER CURIAM
Sitting: Catherine Stone, Chief Justice
Steven C. Hilbig, Justice
Marialyn Barnard, Justice
Delivered and Filed: August 22, 2012
DISMISSED FOR WANT OF JURISDICTION
On May 23, 2012, we ordered Procopio Hinojosa to show cause why this appeal should
not be dismissed for want of jurisdiction because the record did not contain a final judgment. We
suspended all deadlines and ordered the response be filed by June 7, 2012. On June 7, 2012,
Procopio Hinojosa filed her response, asserting the parties had submitted an agreed motion and
order to sever the judgment related to Procopio Hinojosa’s claims from rest of the case. As of
04-12-00221-CV
July 3, 2012, no supplemental clerk’s record containing an order of severance had been filed in
this court.
We then ordered Procopio Hinojosa to request the clerk prepare a supplemental record
with an order establishing our jurisdiction within twenty days from the date of that order or we
would dismiss this appeal. The deadline to file the supplemental clerk’s record was July 23,
2012. No supplemental record was filed.
Because the trial court granted a new trial to Henry Hinojosa, but not to Procopio
Hinojosa, the trial court judgment is not final and appealable. See Lehmann v. Har–Con Corp.,
39 S.W.3d 191, 195 (Tex. 2001) (judgment is final and appealable when it determines the rights
of all parties and disposes of all issues); Hall v. City of Austin, 450 S.W.2d 836, 837–38 (Tex.
1970) (“A severance divides the lawsuit into two or more separate and independent causes. After
a severance, a judgment which disposes of all parties and issues in one of the severed causes is
final and appealable.”). Accordingly, we dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction.
PER CURIAM
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