NUMBER 13-00-699-CV

                             COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                CORPUS CHRISTI

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MIRIAM SAYED, M.D.,                                                          Appellant,

                                                   v.

CESARIO LONGORIA, JR.,                                                      Appellee.

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                        On appeal from the 357th  District Court

                                 of Cameron County, Texas.

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                                   O P I N I O N

                       Before Justices Dorsey, Yanez, and Castillo

Opinion Per Curiam

Appellant, MIRIAM SAYED, M.D., perfected an appeal from a judgment entered by the 357th District Court of Cameron County, Texas, in cause number 99-04-1874-E.  After the record and briefs were filed and after the cause was submitted to the Court, the parties filed a joint motion to dismiss the appeal.  In the motion, the parties state that the controversy made the basis of this cause has been settled by agreement between the parties and the trial court=s judgment has been released.  The parties request that this Court dismiss the appeal.

The Court, having considered the documents on file and the joint motion to dismiss the appeal, is of the opinion that the motion should be granted.  The joint motion to dismiss is granted, and the appeal is hereby DISMISSED.

PER CURIAM

Do not publish.

Tex. R. App. P. 47.3.

Opinion delivered and filed this

the 19^th day of September, 2002.