Henry Rawson Jr and Susan Rawson v. Oxea Corporation and Dashiell Corporation

ACCEPTED 2015-07842 FIRST COURT OF APPEALS HOUSTON, TEXAS 12/21/2015 11/25/2015 2:06:34 1:57:36 PM CHRISTOPHER PRINE CLERK CAUSE NO. 2015-07842 FILED IN HENRY RAWSON, JR. and SUSAN § IN THE DISTRICT COURT 1st COURT OF APPEALS RAWSON § HOUSTON, TEXAS § 12/21/2015 2:06:34 PM v. § HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS CHRISTOPHER A. PRINE § Clerk § OXEA CORPORATION, et al § 190th JUDICIAL DISTRICT NOTICE OF APPEAL Plaintiffs Henry Rawson, Jr. and Susan Rawson (“Plaintiffs”), give notice that they are appealing the following to the First or Fourteenth Court of Appeals at Houston, Texas: 1. Order Granting Oxea Corporation’s Traditional Summary Judgment Motion, signed by the Court on September 1, 2015; 2. Order Granting Oxea Corporation’s No Evidence Summary Judgment Motion, signed by the Court on September 1, 2015; 3. Order Granting Mundy Maintenance and Services, LLC’s Motion for Traditional and No Evidence Summary Judgment, signed by the Court on September 1, 2015; 4. Order Granting Dashiell Corporation’s Motion for Traditional and No Evidence Motion for Summary Judgment, signed by the Court on September 1, 2015; 5. Amended Order Granting Oxea Corporation’s No Evidence Summary Judgment Motion and Traditional Summary Judgment Motion, signed by the Court on September 2, 2015; 6. Amended Order Granting Mundy Maintenance and Services, LLC’s Motion for Traditional and No Evidence Summary Judgment, signed by the Court on September 2, 2015; 7. Amended Order Granting Defendant Dashiell Corporation’s Motion for Traditional and No-Evidence Motion for Summary Judgment, signed by the Court on September 2, 2015 1; and 8. All prior and contemporaneous rulings that are merged into the preceding orders and judgments, including but not limited to rulings on objections to evidence made in connection with the summary judgment orders listed above and orders striking Plaintiffs’ Amended Responses and Sur-Replies, as well as the overruling, by operation of law, 2 on November 16, 2015 of Rawson’s Motion for Reconsideration and Motion for New Trial Regarding Defendant Oxea Corporation’s Hybrid Motion for Summary Judgment, Motion for Reconsideration and Motion for New Trial Regarding Defendant Mundy Maintenance and Services, LLC’s Motion for Traditional and No Evidence Summary Judgment, and Motion for Reconsideration and Motion for New Trial Regarding Defendant Dashiell Corporation’s Traditional and No-Evidence Motion for Summary Judgment. As required by the Local Rules Relating to Assignment of Related Cases and to Transfers of Related Cases, I certify that no related appeal or original proceeding has been previously filed in either the First or Fourteenth Court of Appeals. 1 The Court signed the preceding Amended Orders (referenced in paragraphs 5, 6, and 7 above) on September 2, 2015, granting Defendants Dashiell Corporation’s, Oxea Corporation’s, and Mundy Maintenance and Services, LLC’s traditional and no-evidence summary judgment motions, and dismissing with prejudice all of Plaintiffs’ claims challenged in those motions. Each Amended Order further states: “Any new claims against [Defendant] raised in Plaintiffs’ Second Amended Petition filed on August 31, 2015 are not dismissed under this Order.” However, no new substantive claims were made in Plaintiffs’ Second Amended Petition against any Defendant. Therefore, the Court’s September 1 and 2, 2015 orders dispose of all of Plaintiffs’ claims against all parties in this case. 2 On November 24, 2015, the Court signed three Orders denying Plaintiffs’ Motions for Reconsideration and New Trial regarding the summary judgments granted in favor of Defendants Mundy Maintenance and Services, LLC, Dashiell Corporation, and Oxea Corporation. Plaintiffs also challenge those orders via this notice of appeal. Page 2 of 4 Date: November 25, 2015. Respectfully submitted, THE BUZBEE LAW FIRM /s/ Anthony G. Buzbee Anthony G. Buzbee State Bar No. 24001820 tbuzbee@txattorneys.com Peter K. Taaffe State Bar No. 24003029 ptaaffe@attorneys.com Christopher J. Leavitt State Bar No. 24053318 cleavitt@txattorneys.com JP Morgan Chase Tower 600 Travis, Ste. 7300 Houston, Texas 77002 Telephone: (713) 223-5393 Facsimile: (713) 223-5909 ALEXANDER DUBOSE JEFFERSON & TOWNSEND LLP /s/ Wallace B. Jefferson Wallace B. Jefferson State Bar No. 00000019 wjefferson@adjtlaw.com Anna M. Baker State Bar No. 00791362 abaker@adjtlaw.com 515 Congress Ave., Suite 2350 Austin, Texas 78701 Telephone: (512) 482-9300 Facsimile: (512) 482-9303 ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF Page 3 of 4 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE The undersigned certifies that, on November 25, 2015, Plaintiffs’ Notice of Appeal was electronically filed with the Clerk of Court using eFile.TXCourts.gov the electronic filing system which will send notification of such filing to the following: Jeff Ray Nicholas E. Zito State Bar No. 16604400 State Bar No. 22279500 jray@rmjfirm.com nez@ramey-chandler.com H.L. “Buddy” Socks RAMEY, CHANDLER, QUINN & ZITO, P.C. State Bar No. 18819800 One Bering Park bsocks@rmjfirm.com 750 Bering Drive, Suite 600 RAY, MCCHRISTIAN & JEANS, P.C. Houston, Texas 77057 700 N. St. Mary’s Street, Suite 800 Telephone: (713) 266-0074 San Antonio, Texas 78205 Facsimile: (713) 266-1064 Telephone: (210) 341-3554 Facsimile: (210) 341-3557 Counsel for Defendant OXEA Corporation Counsel for Defendant Mundy Maintenance and Services LLC Jim Wetwiska State Bar No. 00785223 jwetwiska@akingump.com Holli Pryor-Baze State Bar No. 24013357 hpryorbaze@akingump.com AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP 1111 Louisiana Street, 4th Floor Houston, Texas 77002 Telephone: (713) 220-5800 Facsimile: (713) 236-0822 Counsel for Defendant Dashiell Corporation /s/ Wallace B. Jefferson Wallace B. Jefferson Page 4 of 4