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IN RE SWEPI, L.P.

No. 01-0353.

85 S.W.3d 800 (2002)

In re SWEPI, L.P., Kinder Morgan CO2 Company, L.P., Shell Western E & P, Inc., and Shell CO2 Company, Ltd., Relators.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided August 29, 2002.

Rehearing Denied October 24, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marie R. Yeates, Phillip Dye, Jr., Vinson & Elkins, Houston, R. William Wood, Grace Ann Weatherly, Wood Thacker & Weatherly, Denton, Andrew McCollam, III, Gwen J. Samora, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, for Relators.

Donovan Campbell, Jr., Rader Campbell Fisher & Pyke, Dallas, Shannon H. Ratliff, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Austin, Gary J. Cruciani, McKool Smith, Dallas, Michael J. Whitten, Griffin Whitten Jones & Reib, Denton, Richard Kelley, McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, Austin, Robert Bryan Perry, J. David Hartnett, Will Ford Hartnett, James J. Hartnett, Jr., The Hartnett Law Firm, Dallas, Marc O. Knisely, McGinnis Lochridge & Kilgore, Frank N. Ikard, Ikard & Golden, Austin, for Respondent.

Justice RODRIGUEZ delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice HECHT, Justice ENOCH, Justice OWEN, Justice BAKER, Justice HANKINSON, and Justice JEFFERSON join.

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