CourtListener 10711255•Jerald Miller v. Tarrant County Sheriff's Department, Tarrant County, Tarrant County District Attorney, City of Fort Worth, City of Fort Worth Department of Animal Control, City of Fort Worth Code Compliance, City of Fort Worth Police Department, Victoria Martinez A/K/A Alisa Martinez, and Amberness Hernandez
Jerald Miller v. Tarrant County Sheriff's Department, Tarrant County, Tarrant County District Attorney, City of Fort Worth, City of Fort Worth Department of Animal Control, City of Fort Worth Code Compliance, City of Fort Worth Police Department, Victoria Martinez A/K/A Alisa Martinez, and Amberness Hernandez
CourtListener 10711255Txctapp223 oct. 2025
Texte intégral
In the
Court of Appeals
Second Appellate District of Texas
at Fort Worth
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No. 02-25-00451-CV
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JERALD MILLER, Appellant
V.
TARRANT COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT, TARRANT COUNTY, TARRANT
COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY, CITY OF FORT WORTH, CITY OF FORT
WORTH DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL CONTROL, CITY OF FORT WORTH
CODE COMPLIANCE, CITY OF FORT WORTH POLICE DEPARTMENT,
VICTORIA MARTINEZ A/K/A ALISA MARTINEZ, AND AMBERNESS
HERNANDEZ, Appellees
On Appeal from the 153rd District Court
Tarrant County, Texas
Trial Court No. 153-361706-25
Before Sudderth, C.J.; Kerr and Walker, JJ.
Memorandum Opinion by Justice Walker
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Appellant Jerald Miller, proceeding pro se, attempts to appeal from the trial
court’s order denying his motion for continuance.
We have jurisdiction to consider appeals only from final judgments and from
certain interlocutory orders made immediately appealable by statute. Lehmann v. Har-
Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 195, 200 (Tex. 2001); Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann.
§ 51.014(a) (listing appealable interlocutory orders).
Because an order denying a motion for continuance is neither a final judgment
nor an appealable interlocutory order, we notified Miller by letter of our concern that
we lack jurisdiction over this appeal and warned that unless he or any other party filed
a response showing grounds for continuing the appeal, we could dismiss it for want of
jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a). Miller filed a response, but it does not
address our jurisdictional concern.
Without a final judgment or an appealable interlocutory order, we do not have
jurisdiction over the appeal. We thus dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction. See
Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f); Lehmann, 39 S.W.3d at 195, 200; see also In re R.B.,
No. 02-24-00531-CV, 2025 WL 285336, at *1 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth Jan. 23, 2025,
no pet.) (mem. op.) (dismissing appeal for want of jurisdiction because order being
appealed was not a final judgment or an appealable interlocutory order).
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/s/ Brian Walker
Brian Walker
Justice
Delivered: October 23, 2025
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