STATE OF LOUISIANA COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT W. B. HIGDON, JR., JOSEPH WILBERT NO. 2020 CW 0016 BRYANT, JR., OUIDA JEANINE REID, MARY JANET HARGROVE VIAL, CLAIRE T. WHITAKER, THE ESTATE OF RUTH ROSE WILBERT TEMPLET, THROUGH ITS EXECUTRIX JANE TEMPLET PIZZOLATO, KAY J. SCARBOROUGH, MARY JOSEPHINE BUQUOI PRIMEAUX, KIM J. HOWELL, BETH HICKMAN, MICHAEL HICKMAN, MARY MIXON HIGDON BRINKERHOFF, MARY CAROLYN J. THIBODEAUX, KARLYN GUMM, MEGAN GUMM, AND GUILLIAN GUMM ZOOK

VERSUS

BIL -MIK, INC., BRIDAS ENERGY USA, INC., CENTERPOINT ENERGY RESOURCES CORP., CHEVRON U. S. A. INC., CHEVRON CORPORATION, CLIFFWOOD EXPLORATION LIMITED PARTNERSHIP 1983, CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY, CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY, DEVON LOUISIANA CORPORATION, EXXONMOBIL CORPORATION, FOREST OIL CORPORATION, FOSTER - BROWN OPERATIONS, INFC., MAGNA OIL & GAS CORP., MIDCON EXPLORATION COMPANY - GULF COAST, OLEUM OPERATING COMPANY, L. C., SAMSON RESOURCES COMPANY, SHELL OIL COMPANY, SHELL PETROLEUM CORP., SLX ENERGY, INC., SMK- LA, INC., SUPREME CONTRACTORS, L .L .C., FOUR STAR OIL AND GAS MAR 0 3 2020 COMPANY, TOCE OIL COMPANY, AND UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA

In Re: Toce Oil Company, applying for supervisory writs, 18th Judicial District Court, Parish of Iberville, No. 62857.

BEFORE: WHIPPLE, C. J., GUIDRY AND BURRIS, 1 JJ.

WRIT DENIED. The criteria set forth in Herlitz Construction Co., Inc. v. Hotel Investors of New Iberia, Inc., 396 So. 2d 878 ( La. 1981) ( per curiam) are not met.

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Whipple, C. J., concurs and would deny the writ.

C T OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

1111 ail DEPUTY CLERK OF COURT FOR THE COURT

1 Judge William J. Burris, retired, serving pro tempore by special appointment of the Louisiana Supreme Court.