                            NUMBER 13-10-00634-CV

                            COURT OF APPEALS

                  THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                     CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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CLAYTON DIRECTIONAL DRILLING, LTD.,                                     APPELLANT,

                                           v.

SANTIAGO A. GUAJARDO,                             APPELLEE.
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           On Appeal from the County Court at Law No. 4
                    of Nueces County, Texas.
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                         MEMORANDUM OPINION
                  Before Justices Garza, Benavides, and Vela
                      Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

      Appellant, Clayton Directional Drilling, Ltd., perfected an appeal from a judgment

entered by the County Court at Law No. 4 of Nueces County, Texas, in cause number

07-62659-4. Appellant has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal on grounds that the

parties have settled the case. Appellant requests that this Court dismiss the appeal.
      The Court, having considered the documents on file and appellant=s motion to

dismiss the appeal, is of the opinion that the motion should be granted. See TEX. R. APP.

P. 42.1(a).   Appellant=s motion to dismiss is granted, and the appeal is hereby

DISMISSED. Costs will be taxed against appellant. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.1(d) ("Absent

agreement of the parties, the court will tax costs against the appellant.").     Having

dismissed the appeal at appellant=s request, no motion for rehearing will be entertained,

and our mandate will issue forthwith.



                                               PER CURIAM

Delivered and filed the
3rd day of February, 2011.




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