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*0 FILED IN 1st COURT OF APPEALS HOUSTON, TEXAS 6/16/2015 4:17:37 PM CHRISTOPHER A. PRINE Clerk *1 ACCEPTED 01-15-00529-CV FIRST COURT OF APPEALS 6/8/2015 3:57:57 PM Chris Daniel - District Clerk Harris County HOUSTON, TEXAS Envelope No. 5588780 6/16/2015 4:17:37 PM By: Phyllis Washington CHRISTOPHER PRINE Filed: 6/8/2015 3:57:57 PM CLERK

CAUSE NO. 2015-04190

MAURICE JOHNSON and § IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF

E&M ENTERPRISES, INC., §

Plaintiffs, §

§

vs. § HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS

§

NACE INTERNATIONAL and §

KEN GRAYS, § 215 th JUDICIAL DISTRICT

Defendants. §

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 T EX . R. A PP . P. 28.4.

NOTICE OF APPEAL ........................................................................................................................................ PAGE 1

Respectfully submitted,

BY: /s/ Anthony T. Golz Anthony T. Golz

Texas Bar No. 24059834

agolz@cbylaw.com

John L. Grayson

Texas Bar No. 08341500

jgrayson@cbylaw.com

Robert J. Naudin, Jr.

Texas Bar No. 24053898

rnaudin@cbylaw.com C OKINOS , B OSIEN & Y OUNG

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

G REALISH & M C Z EAL , P.C.

700 Louisiana Street, 48 th 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

NOTICE OF APPEAL ........................................................................................................................................ PAGE 2