ACCEPTED 01-15-00529-CV FIRST 6/8/2015 COURT3:57:57 PM OF APPEALS Chris Daniel - District Clerk Harris County HOUSTON, TEXAS Envelope No. 5588780 6/16/2015 4:17:37 PM By:CHRISTOPHER Phyllis Washington PRINE Filed: 6/8/2015 3:57:57 PMCLERK CAUSE NO. 2015-04190 MAURICE JOHNSON and § IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF FILED IN E&M ENTERPRISES, INC., § 1st COURT OF APPEALS Plaintiffs, § HOUSTON, TEXAS § 6/16/2015 4:17:37 PM vs. § HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS CHRISTOPHER A. PRINE § Clerk NACE INTERNATIONAL and § KEN GRAYS, § Defendants. § 215th JUDICIAL DISTRICT

NOTICE OF APPEAL TO THE HONORABLE JUDGE OF SAID COURT: Defendant, NACE INTERNATIONAL, files this Notice stating its intention to appeal the trial court’s Order Denying Defendant’s Motion to Compel Arbitration, signed May 29, 2015.

This appeal will be filed in and sought from either the First or Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston, Texas. This is an accelerated appeal. This is not a parental termination or child protection case, as defined in TEX. R. APP. P. 28.4.

NOTICE OF APPEAL ........................................................................................................................................ PAGE 1 Respectfully submitted, BY: /s/ Anthony T. Golz Anthony T. Golz Texas Bar No. 24059834 [email protected] John L. Grayson Texas Bar No. 08341500 [email protected] Robert J. Naudin, Jr. Texas Bar No. 24053898 [email protected] COKINOS, BOSIEN & YOUNG 1221 Lamar Street, 16th Floor Houston, Texas 77010 (713) 535-5500 (713) 535-5533 (Fax) ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT, NACE INTERNATIONAL

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I certify that, on June 8, 2015, a copy of the foregoing was forwarded to all counsel of record by the Electronic Filing Service Provider and by facsimile as follows: Marcellous S. McZeal GREALISH & MCZEAL, P.C.

700 Louisiana Street, 48th Floor Houston, Texas 77002 (713) 255-3234 (713) 783-2502 (Fax) Attorneys for Plaintiffs, Maurice Johnson and E&M Enterprises, Inc.

/s/ Anthony T. Golz Anthony T. Golz

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