NUMBER 13-01-807-CV

                             COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                CORPUS CHRISTI

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TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH,                                         Appellant,

                                                   v.

NANCY MARIA GOMEZ,                                                         Appellee.

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                        On appeal from the 92nd  District Court

                                  of Hidalgo County, Texas.

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                                   O P I N I O N

                    Before Justices Dorsey, Hinojosa, and Rodriguez

Opinion Per Curiam

Appellant, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, perfected an appeal from a judgment entered by the 92nd District Court of Hidalgo County, Texas, in cause number C-5699-96-A.  After the record was filed and after the appeal was abated for settlement, appellant filed an unopposed  motion to dismiss the appeal.  In the motion, appellant states that all settlement documents and conditions precedent to dismissing this appeal have been completed, and all issues pending before this Court have been fully and finally resolved by the parties.  Appellant requests that this Court dismiss the appeal.

The Court, having considered the documents on file and appellant=s motion to dismiss the appeal, is of the opinion that the motion should be granted.  Appellant=s 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Do not publish.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 18th day of July, 2002.