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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN NO. 03-26-00621-CV D’Etra R. Goodspeed-Hunter, Appellant v. Jackson Water Well Drilling & Service, LLC, Appellee FROM THE 335TH DISTRICT COURT OF BASTROP COUNTY NO. 3168-335, THE HONORABLE JOHN WINKELMANN, JUDGE PRESIDING MEMORANDUM OPINION Appellant D’Etra R. Goodspeed-Hunter appeals the trial court’s February 27, 2026 order, which granted appellee Jackson Water Well Drilling & Service, LLC’s (Jackson) plea in bar and motion to dismiss and dismissed all of Goodspeed-Hunter’s claims with prejudice. Jackson filed a motion to dismiss this appeal, asserting that this Court lacks jurisdiction over the appeal because the notice of appeal was not timely filed. We agree. The order from which Goodspeed-Hunter appeals was signed by the district court on February 27, 2026. Assuming Goodspeed-Hunter’s Motion for Reconsideration extended the deadline for perfecting an appeal, the deadline would have been May 28, 2026. See Tex. R. App. P. 26.1(a) (“[T]he notice of appeal must be filed within 90 days after the judgment is signed if any party timely files: (1) a motion for new trial; (2) a motion to modify the judgment . . . .”). Goodspeed-Hunter filed her notice of appeal on July 9, 2026, forty-two days past the deadline. The notice of appeal was therefore untimely. “[O]nce the period for granting a motion for extension of time under Rule 41(a)(2) [now Rule 26.3] has passed, a party can no longer invoke the appellate court’s jurisdiction.” Verburgt v. Dorner, 959 S.W.2d 615, 617 (Tex. 1997). Accordingly, we grant Jackson’s motion and dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a). __________________________________________ Rosa Lopez Theofanis, Justice Before Chief Justice Byrne, Justices Kelly and Theofanis Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction Filed: September 3, 2026 2