Court Opinion

ID: 9394080
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-05-12 07:11:55.063655+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:18:57.308482
License: Public Domain

In The

                                Court of Appeals

                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                               NO. 09-23-00081-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. CIV22-0073
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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, which the trial court signed

on March 14, 2023. We questioned whether the order was a final judgment or an

interlocutory order that is appealable as an accelerated appeal. Appellant filed a

response, but his response failed to identify a statute that authorizes an accelerated

appeal in this instance.

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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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