COURT OF APPEALS

                                                    EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                                               EL PASO, TEXAS

DILLARD DEPARTMENT STORES, INC.,        )

                                                                              )              No.  08-02-00502-CV

Appellant,                          )

                                                                              )                    Appeal from the

v.                                                                           )

                                                                              )                 34th District Court

DAVID GONZALES,                                           )

                                                                              )            of El Paso County, Texas

Appellee.                           )

                                                                              )                   (TC# 95-10608)

MEMORANDUM   OPINION

Pending before the Court is the Appellant=s  motion to dismiss this appeal pursuant to Tex.R.App.P. 42.1(a)(2), which states:

(a) The appellate court may dispose of an appeal as follows:

                                                              .               .               .

(2)        in accordance with a motion of appellant to dismiss the appeal or affirm the appealed judgment or order; but no party may be prevented from seeking any relief to which it would otherwise be entitled. 

Appellant has complied with the requirements of Rule 42.1(a)(2).  The Court has considered this cause on the Appellant=s motion and concludes the motion should be granted and the appeal should be dismissed.  We therefore dismiss the appeal.

February 13, 2003

DAVID WELLINGTON CHEW, Justice

Before Panel No. 3

Barajas, C.J., Larsen, and Chew, JJ.