ADI v. TX. DEPT. OF INS

Full title: JOHN ADI, Appellant v. TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE and KELLEY LIESMAN…

Court: Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth District, Houston

Date published: Dec 11, 2003

No. 14-02-00521-CV (Tex. App. Dec. 11, 2003)

Opinion

No. 14-02-00521-CV

Opinion filed: December 11, 2003.

On Appeal from the 270th District Court, Harris County, Texas, Trial Court Cause No. 01-44960. Affirmed.

Panel consists of Justices YATES, HUDSON, and FOWLER.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

J. HARVEY HUDSON, Justice.

Appellant sued the Texas Department of Insurance ("Department") and its investigator, Kelley Menefee ("Menefee"), alleging defamation. The trial court granted a summary judgment motion in favor of the Department and Menefee. Appellant, representing himself pro se, presents six issues for review that can be summarized as two contentions, namely, the trial court's judgment should be reversed because (1) genuine issues of material fact were raised regarding the appellees' affirmative defenses of substantial truth and lack of injury, and (2) the judgment is founded upon defective summary judgment evidence.

For the same reasons articulated today by this court in Adi v. Prudential Prop. Cas. Ins. Co. of Am., No. 14-01-01001-CV (Tex. App.-Houston [14th Dist.] Dec. 11, 2003, n. pet. h.), we affirm the trial court's judgment.

Judgment rendered.