Court Opinion

ID: 9394079
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-05-12 07:11:54.372032+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:18:57.308930
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In The

                                   Court of Appeals

                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                               NO. 09-23-00082-CV
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                       ELIJAH W. RATCLIFF, Appellant

                                          V.

          WESLEY RATCLIFF AND JOHN RATCLIFF, Appellees

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               On Appeal from the 258th District Court
                         Polk County, Texas
                     Trial Cause No. CIV22-0049
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Elijah W. Ratcliff filed a notice of accelerated appeal from the trial court’s

order denying Ratcliff’s motion for summary judgment. We questioned whether the

trial court has signed a final judgment or an interlocutory order that is appealable as

an accelerated appeal. The clerk’s record has been filed, but the record does not

contain a signed judgment or order of the trial court. Appellant filed a response to

the Clerk’s notice, but his response failed to identify a statute that authorizes an

accelerated appeal at this time.

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      Generally, in civil cases appellate courts review only final judgments and

interlocutory orders specifically made appealable by statute. Lehmann v. Har-Con

Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 195 (Tex. 2001). An appeal from an interlocutory order may

proceed as an accelerated appeal “when allowed by statute[.]” See Tex. R. App. P.

28.1. We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. See id. 42.3(a), 43.2(f).

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                                           PER CURIAM

Submitted on May 10, 2023
Opinion Delivered May 11, 2023

Before Golemon, C.J., Horton and Johnson, JJ.

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