COURT OF APPEALS

                                       SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                                   FORT WORTH

                                        NO. 2-07-191-CV

IN RE EMPIRE EQUIPMENT                                                     RELATORS

INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND

ROBERT RUSSELL                                                                               

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                                    ORIGINAL PROCEEDING

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                                MEMORANDUM OPINION^[1]

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The court has considered relators= petition for writ of mandamus and is of the opinion that relief should be denied.  Accordingly, relators= petition for writ of mandamus is denied.

Relators shall pay all costs of this original proceeding, for which let execution issue.

PER CURIAM

PANEL B:  DAUPHINOT, GARDNER, and WALKER, JJ.

DELIVERED:  July 9, 2007