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           1               SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY
                              MERCER - LAW DIVISION
           2                  DOCKET NO. L-1910-02
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           3    KEITH SIMPKINS          :  CIVIL ACTION
                            Plaintiff  :
           4            vs.             :
                7-ELEVEN, INC. a/k/a    :
           5    SOUTHLAND CORPORATION   :
                        and             :
           6    SEVEN ELEVEN STORE NO.  :
                23786                   :
           7            and             :
                OMAR SOSA               :
           8            and             :
                FRANK GUTSCHOW          :
           9            and             :
                ABC CORPORATIONS 1-99   :
          10    fictitious entities     :
                        and             :
          11    JOHN DOE 1-99,fictitious:
                names                   :
          12                 Defendants :
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                           Cherry Hill, New Jersey
          14              Tuesday, February 15, 2005

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          16                 Deposition of DAVID L. JOHNSTON, taken

          17    pursuant to notice, at the law offices of Daller,

          18    Greenberg & Dietrich, LLP, 457 Haddonfield Road, Suite

          19    120, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, on the above date,

          20    beginning at 10:05 a.m., before Donna A. Bittner,

          21    RMR-CRR.

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                            DONNA A. BITTNER REPORTING
          23            REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL REPORTERS
                                   61 Penn Road
          24               Voorhees, New Jersey  08043
                                  (856) 768-6619
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           1    APPEARANCES:

           2            STEVEN D. JANEL, ESQUIRE
                           Circle West Office Park, Suite 12
           3               1 Pennington-Washington Crossing Road
                           Pennington, New Jersey  08534
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                              Counsel for Plaintiff
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