Jason Lee Rock v. Bengal Brokerage, LLC

Order entered August 31, 2022
In The
Court of Appeals
Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
No. 05-22-00576-CV
JASON LEE ROCK, Appellant
V.
BENGAL BROKERAGE, LLC, Appellee
On Appeal from the County Court at Law No. 7
Collin County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. 007-00956-2022
ORDER
By order dated August 10, 2022, we ordered appellant1 to provide, by
August 22, written verification that he has paid the fee for the clerk’s record. He
failed to comply. The Court has since learned that appellant appealed from the
justice court to the county court by filing a Statement of Inability to Pay which was
1
Jason Lee Rock filed a pro se notice of appeal. Although the notice of appeal listed other parties, it was
signed only by him and, therefore, he is the only appellant.
not challenged.2 Accordingly, appellant is allowed to proceed without payment of
costs. See TEX. R. APP. P. 20.1(b)(1).
We ORDER Collin County Clerk Stacey Kemp to file the clerk’s record
without cost within twenty days of the date of this order. We ORDER Shawn
Grant, Official Court Reporter for County Court at Law No. 7, to file, within
twenty days of the date of this order, either the reporter’s record or written
verification that appellant has not requested the record. We caution appellant that
should we receive written verification of no request, we will order the appeal be
submitted without the reporter’s record. See id. 37.3(c).
Before the Court is appellee’s August 24, 2022 motion to dismiss the appeal
for want of prosecution. We DENY the motion.
We DIRECT the Clerk of this Court to send a copy of this order to Ms.
Kemp; Ms. Grant; and, all parties.
/s/ KEN MOLBERG
JUSTICE
2
At the Court’s request, a supplemental clerk’s record with the Statement of Inability has been filed.