






NUMBER 13-07-00518-CV


COURT OF APPEALS


THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS


CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG 

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HMC HOSPITALITY OPERATING
COMPANY AND GRAYBAR 
ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC., 	Appellants,

v.


ALVARO GONZALEZ, ET AL.,	Appellees. 
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On appeal from the 93rd District Court 
of Hidalgo County, Texas.

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MEMORANDUM OPINION

 
Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Garza and Benavides
Memorandum Opinion by Justice Garza

	On February 26, 2008, appellant, HMC Hospitality Operating Company ("HMC"),
filed an unopposed motion to dismiss its underlying accelerated interlocutory appeal filed
against appellees, Alvaro Gonzalez, The Gonzalez-DLS Family Limited Partnership,
Brownsville SB, L.P., and Ascension Hospitality Management, L.L.C.  In this motion, HMC
asserts that the parties mediated their claims and came to an agreement on October 22,
2007.  The terms of the agreement provided that HMC would seek to dismiss this appeal
and each party would be responsible for its own costs.  In addition, appellant Graybar
Electric Company, Inc. filed an emergency expedited motion for severance.  
	The Court, having examined and fully considered appellant HMC's unopposed
motion to dismiss appeal and appellant Graybar's expedited motion for severance, is of the
opinion that the motions should be granted. 	
	Accordingly, HMC HOSPITALITY OPERATING COMPANY's motion to dismiss is
GRANTED, and the appeal in cause number 13-07-00518-CV is hereby DISMISSED.  See
Tex. R. App. P. 42(a).     
	The remaining issues in the appeal will remain docketed under cause number 13-08-00294-CV, styled GRAYBAR ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC. v. ALVARO GONZALEZ,
ET AL.  

  
 	DORI CONTRERAS GARZA,
								Justice

Memorandum Opinion delivered and 
filed this the 13th day of May, 2008. 




 
