rolisha-goins-corine-copeland-and-alma-lowe-v-hitchcock-independent ( 2006 )

Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed January 12, 2006

Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed January 12, 2006.

In The

Fourteenth Court of Appeals

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NO. 14-05-01255-CV

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ROLISHA GOINS, CORINE COPELAND, and ALMA LOWE, Appellants

V.

HITCHCOCK INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, JOSIE M. ORR, RICKY BOND, RON MEIER, DORIS SCURRY-KENNEDY, PAT TURNER, MARK MORGAN, SHAWN KADLECEK, ROCHELLE RANDLE, JOE ALLEN, JIMMY ANDERSON, BILL BANKS, BRENDA TAYLOR, RONNIE PURL, JANICE BRAUNSDORF, ANNE SANDERS, and BARBARA WILSON, Appellees

On Appeal from the 10th District Court

Galveston County, Texas

Trial Court Cause No. 03CV1038

M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N

This is an attempted appeal from an Order Denying Plaintiffs= Proof of Service on Defendants, signed December 5, 2005.  Appellants filed their notice of appeal on December 7, 2005.  On December 28, 2005, appellees filed a motion to dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.  The motion is granted.

The trial court=s order signed December 5, 2005, is interlocutory.  The order recites that A[t]here has been no effective service on any Defendant in this case.@  The order does not dispose of all parties and claims and it is not made appealable by statute.  See North East I.S.D. v. Aldridge, 400 S.W.2d 893, 895 (Tex. 1966) (holding that appellate courts generally only have jurisdiction over final judgments unless an interlocutory order is specifically made appealable by statute).  When an appellant attempts to appeal an interlocutory order that is not expressly made appealable by statute, we have no jurisdiction except to dismiss the appeal. Harper v. Welchem, Inc., 799 S.W.2d 492, 496 (Tex. App.CHouston [14th Dist.] 1990, no writ). 

Accordingly, the appeal is ordered dismissed.

PER CURIAM

Judgment rendered and Memorandum Opinion filed January 12, 2006.

Panel consists of Chief Justice Hedges and Justices Yates and Anderson.