Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-09-20 06:08:15.510637+00
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DISMISS and Opinion Filed September 12, 2023

                                    S  In The
                            Court of Appeals
                     Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                               No. 05-23-00157-CV

 CRETIC ENERGY SERVICES, LLC; CATAPULT ENERGY SERVICES
  GROUP, LLC; AND NGP ENERGY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC,
                         Appellants
                            V.
      LAREDO PETROLEUM, INC.; BIG B CRANE, LLC; AND
   INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF HANOVER S.E.,
                         Appellees

                On Appeal from the 101st Judicial District Court
                             Dallas County, Texas
                     Trial Court Cause No. DC-22-13638

                        MEMORANDUM OPINION
        Before Chief Justice Burns, Justice Molberg, and Justice Goldstein
                         Opinion by Chief Justice Burns
      This appeal was filed prematurely, before an appealable judgment was signed.

See Hinde v. Hinde, 701 S.W.2d 637, 639 (Tex. 1985) (per curiam) (to be appealable,

judgment must dispose of all parties and claims and be sufficiently definite and

certain to define and protect litigants’ rights). Ordered to show cause why the appeal

should not be dismissed for want of jurisdiction, see Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a),
appellants responded by letter acknowledging that we lack jurisdiction.

Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal. See id.

                                         /Robert D. Burns, III/
                                         ROBERT D. BURNS, III
                                         CHIEF JUSTICE

230157F.P05

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                                   S
                            Court of Appeals
                     Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                  JUDGMENT

CRETIC ENERGY SERVICES,                       On Appeal from the 101st Judicial
LLC; CATAPULT ENERGY                          District Court, Dallas County, Texas
SERVICES GROUP, LLC; AND                      Trial Court Cause No. DC-22-13638.
NGP ENERGY CAPITAL                            Opinion delivered by Chief Justice
MANAGEMENT, LLC, Appellants                   Burns, Justices Molberg and
                                              Goldstein participating.
No. 05-23-00157-CV          V.

LAREDO PETROLEUM, INC.; BIG
B CRANE, LLC; AND
INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE
COMPANY OF HANOVER S.E.,
Appellees

      In accordance with this Court’s opinion of this date, we DISMISS the appeal.

      We ORDER that appellees Laredo Petroleum, Inc.; Big B Crane, LLC; and
International Insurance Company of Hanover S.E. recover their costs, if any, of this
appeal from appellants Cretic Energy Services, LLC; Catapult Energy Services
Group, LLC; and NGP Energy Capital Management, LLC.

Judgment entered September 12, 2023.

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