Elijah W. Ratcliff, Individually and Elijah W. Ratcliff v. Polk County Title, Inc., Ronald P. Boyce and E.L. McClendon, Jr.

In The

Court of Appeals

Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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NO. 09-04-124 CV

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ELIJAH W. RATCLIFF, Appellant

V

POLK COUNTY TITLE, INC., RONALD P. BOYCE,

AND E.L. McCLENDON, JR., Appellees

On Appeal from the 411th District Court

Polk County, Texas

Trial Cause No. 19256

MEMORANDUM OPINION (1)

This is an appeal by the plaintiff in a defamation suit against a title company, a title examiner, and an attorney for disseminating a title report that expressed the opinion that the plaintiff's grandmother had died intestate. We affirm the judgment for the reasons explained in…