ACCEPTED 04-15-00465-CV FOURTH COURT OF APPEALS SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 9/11/2015 5:46:53 PM KEITH HOTTLE CLERK

NO. 04-15-00465-CV FILED IN ____________________________________________________________ 4th COURT OF APPEALS SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS IN THE COURT OF APPEALS 09/11/2015 5:46:53 PM FOURTH SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT KEITH E. HOTTLE Clerk SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

ADOLFO MARTINEZ, APPELLANT, VS. NOEL P. BENAVIDES, ET AL., APPELLEES.

From the 229th Judicial District Court of Starr County, Texas Trial Court Case DC-03-350 ________________________________________________________________________ FIRST MOTION TO EXTEND TIME TO FILE APPELLANT’S BRIEF ________________________________________________________________________ TO THE HONORABLE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT __________________________________________________________ The Appellant ADOLFO MARTINEZ files this First Motion to Extend the Time to File the Brief of Appellant for a term of thirty days pursuant to Rule 10.5(b) of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure. In support of this First Motion to Extend Time to File Appellant’s Brief, the Appellant would respectfully show the Court as follows: 1. The deadline for filing the Appellant’s Brief is Saturday, September 12th, 2015.

WMICROSOFTWORD-RE-13-025-FIRST MOTION TO EXTEND TIME TO FILE BRIEF-04-15-00465-CV-ADOLFO MARTINEZ-2ND APPEAL 2. The Appellant relies on the following facts to reasonably explain the need for the extension of thirty days to file the Appellant’s Brief as required by Rule 10.5b of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure: A. The Appellant’s attorney has done considerable legal research for the preparation of the Appellant’s Brief, but he has not been able to complete the final version because his time has been severely curtailed by his attending to old and new clients and interviewing witnesses and visiting lands in dispute in civil cases he is involved in and by his attending to pre-trial and trial settings and writing trial and appellate briefs including an Appellees’ Brief filed with this Honorable Court of Appeals on August 27 th, 2015, and, also, in the filing of pre-trial motions and original petitions in other civil cases.

B. Further, the Appellant’s attorney has also been engaged in preparing and serving discovery requests in several civil cases.

PRAYER Therefore, the Appellant prays for an extension of thirty days to file the Appellant’s Brief in the above- referenced and numbered appeal. The Appellant requests that he be granted general relief.

Respectfully submitted,

/S/ Margil Sanchez, Jr., Margil Sanchez, Jr., Attorney at Law

WMICROSOFTWORD-RE-13-025-FIRST MOTION TO EXTEND TIME TO FILE BRIEF-04-15-00465-CV-ADOLFO MARTINEZ-2ND APPEAL Margil Sanchez, Jr. Attorney at Law P.O. Box 297 Rio Grande City, Texas, 78582 Tel. No. 956-487-7575 Fax No. 956-487-8491 Bar I.D. No. 17570800 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I certify that a true and correct copy of the Appellant’s First Motion for Extension of Time to File Appellant’s Brief was sent by certified mail number 7014 3490 0000 8721 1131, return receipt requested, to Carmen Ramirez, Attorney-at-Law, 4715 S. Jackson Road, Edinburg, Texas, 78539- 8300, on September 11, 2015.

/S/ Margil Sanchez, Jr., Margil Sanchez, Jr. Attorney at Law CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I certify that a true and correct copy of the Appellant’s First Motion for Extension of Time to File Appellant’s Brief was sent by certified mail number 7014 3490 0000 8721 1100, return receipt requested, to Edmundo Ramirez, Attorney at Law, Ellis, Koeneke, Ramirez & Bishop, L.L.P., 1101 Chicago Ave., McAllen, Texas, 78501-4822, on September 11th, 2015. /S/ Margil Sanchez, Jr., Margil Sanchez, Jr. Attorney at Law

WMICROSOFTWORD-RE-13-025-FIRST MOTION TO EXTEND TIME TO FILE BRIEF-04-15-00465-CV-ADOLFO MARTINEZ-2ND APPEAL