Citgo v. Halter-Calcasieu

Full title: CITGO PETROLEUM CORPORATION v. HALTER-CALCASIEU, INC., L.L.C., ET AL

Court: Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit

Date published: Nov 19, 2003

865 So. 2d 823 (La. Ct. App. 2003)

Opinion

No. 03-00137.

November 19, 2003.

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.

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, N.Y. 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.

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

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. 11/19/03), 865 So.2d 813, 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.