CLARA ESPREE, INDIVIDUALLY VERSUS CITGO PETROLEUM CORPORATION, ET AL.

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STATE OF LOUISIANA COURT OF APPEAL, THIRD CIRCUIT 17-312 consolidated with 17-296, 17-297, 17-298, 17-299, 17-300, 17-301, 17302, 17-303, 17-304, 17-305, 17-306, 17-307, 17-308, 17-309, 17-310, 17-311, 17313, 17-314, 17-315, 17-316, 17-317, 17-318, 17-319, 17-320, and 17-321 CLARA ESPREE, INDIVIDUALLY VERSUS CITGO PETROLEUM CORPORATION, ET AL. ********** APPEAL FROM THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF CALCASIEU, NOS. 2007-2511, 2007-2492, 2007-2498, 2007-2519, 2007-2911, 2007-3324, 2007-2921, 2007-3482, 2007-3394, 2007-2919, 20072610, 2007-2521, 2007-2625, 2007-2515, 2007-2507, 2007-2915, 2007-2598, 2007-3332, 2007-2929, 2007-2603, 2010-922, 2007-2932, 2007-2497, 2007-3337, 2007-2516, and 2007-2502 HONORABLE SHARON D. WILSON, DISTRICT JUDGE ********** ULYSSES GENE THIBODEAUX CHIEF JUDGE ********** Court composed of Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux, Chief Judge, Sylvia R. Cooks, and Shannon J. Gremillion, Judges. AFFIRMED. Mat Marion Gray, III Ashley E. Bane Fowler Rodriguez 400 Poydras Street - 30th Floor New Orleans, LA 70130 Telephone: (504) 523-2600 COUNSEL FOR: Other - Louisiana Surplus Lines Association Robert E. Landry Kevin Paul Fontenot Scofield, Gerard, Pohorelsky, Gallaugher & Landry 901 Lakeshore Drive – Suite 900 Lake Charles, LA 70601 Telephone: (337) 433-9436 COUNSEL FOR: Defendant/Appellant - CITGO Petroleum Corporation Kirk Albert Patrick, III Donahue, Patrick & Scott 450 Laurel Street - Suite 1600 Baton Rouge, LA 70801 Telephone: (225) 214-1908 COUNSEL FOR: Defendant/Appellee - R & R Construction, Inc. Wells T. Watson Jake Buford Baggett, McCall , Burgess, Watson & Gaughan 3006 Country Club Road Lake Charles, LA 70605 Telephone: (337) 478-8888 COUNSEL FOR: Plaintiff/Appellee - Emma Bradford Marshall Joseph Simien, Jr. Simien Law Firm 2129 Fitzenreiter Road Lake Charles, LA 70601 Telephone: (337) 497-0022 COUNSEL FOR: Defendant/Appellant - CITGO Petroleum Corporation Matthew David Monson The Monson Law Firm, LLC 900 West Causeway Approach – Suite A Mandeville, LA 70471 Telephone: (985) 778-0678 COUNSEL FOR: Other - Louisiana Surplus Lines Association Richard E. Wilson Somer G. Brown Cox, Cox, Filo, Camel & Wilson, LLC 723 Broad Street Lake Charles, LA 70601 Telephone: (337) 436-6611 COUNSEL FOR: Plaintiff/Appellee - Emma Bradford Craig Isenberg Joshua O. Cox Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C. 909 Poydras Street – 24th Floor New Orleans, LA 70112 Telephone: (504) 589-9700 COUNSEL FOR: Defendant/Appellant - CITGO Petroleum Corporation R. Heath Savant Donohue Patrick, PLLC 450 Laurel Street - Suite 1600 Baton Rouge, LA 70801 Telephone: (225) 214-1908 COUNSEL FOR: Defendant/Appellee - R & R Construction, Inc. THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge. For the reasons discussed in the consolidated case of Emma Bradford v. CITGO Petroleum Corporation, et al., 17-296 (La.App. 3 Cir. __/__/17), ___ So.3d ___ (trial court docket no. 2007-2492), the judgment of the trial court in Clara Espree v. CITGO Petroleum Corporation, et al., 17-312 (trial court docket no. 2007-2511) is affirmed. AFFIRMED.

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