Citgo Petroleum Corporation v. Halter-Calcasieu, L.L.C.

STATE OF LOUISIANA COURT OF APPEAL, THIRD CIRCUIT

03-00137

CITGO PETROLEUM CORPORATION VERSUS HALTER-CALCASIEU, INC., L.L.C., ET AL.

******* APPEAL FROM THE

FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

PARISH OF CALCASIEU, DOCKET NO. 2001-1911 C/W 2000-5364

HONORABLE FRED R. GODWIN, PRESIDING

******* SYLVIA R. COOKS JUDGE *******

Court composed of Sylvia R. Cooks, Oswald A. Decuir, and Marc T. Amy, Judges.

AFFIRMED.

Hugh Ramsey Straub Terriberry, Carroll & Yancey 3100 Energy Center 1100 Poydras Street New Orleans, LA 70163 Telephone: (504) 523-6451 COUNSEL FOR APPELLANT:

ConocoPhillips Company Gregory W. Belfour Jones, Tete, Nolen, Fonti & Belfour, L.L.P. 1135 Lakeshore Drive, Suite 600 Lake Charles, LA 70601 Telephone: (337) 439-8315 COUNSEL FOR APPELLANT:

ConocoPhillips Company James H. Hohenstein Haight, Gardner, Holland & Knight, L.L.P. 195 Broadway New Orleans, NY 10007 Telephone: (212) 513-3200 COUNSEL FOR APPELLANT:

CITGO Petroleum Corporation William B. Swift Swift, Spears & Harper, L.L.P. First Federal Building P.O. Box 1810 Lake Charles, LA 70602 Telephone: (337) 433-0707 COUNSEL FOR APPELLANT:

CITGO Petroleum Corporation James B. Doyle Woodley, Williams, Boudreau, Norman, Brown & Doyle, L.L.C. 500 Kirby Street P.O. Box 3731 Lake Charles, LA 70602-3731 Telephone: (337) 433-6328 COUNSEL FOR APPELLEE:

Halter Calcasieu, L.L.C., et al.

COOKS, Judge.

For the reasons assigned in the companion case of Citgo Petroleum Corp. v. Halter-Calcasieu, Inc., L.L.C., et al., 03-136 (La.App. 3 Cir. __/__/03), ___ So.2d ___, we affirm the judgment of the trial court in docket number 2001-1911. All costs of this consolidated appeal are assessed equally to the appellants, ConocoPhillips Company and CITGO Petroleum Corporation.

AFFIRMED.