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Item 1. Security and Issuer
This Amendment No. 16 to Schedule 13D (Amendment No. 16) amends and supplements the original Schedule 13D filed on June 11, 2015 (as amended by Amendment No. 1, Amendment No. 2, Amendment No. 3, Amendment No. 4, Amendment No. 5, and Amendment No. 6, the Schedule 13D), Amendment No. 1 to Schedule 13D filed on June 30, 2015 (Amendment No. 1), Amendment No. 2 to Schedule 13D filed on July 6, 2015 (Amendment No. 2), Amendment No. 3 to Schedule 13D filed on July 20, 2015 (Amendment No. 3), Amendment No. 4 to Schedule 13D filed on August 10, 2015 (Amendment No. 4), Amendment No. 5 to Schedule 13D filed on May 25, 2016 (Amendment No. 5), Amendment No. 6 to Schedule 13D filed on September 6, 2016 (Amendment No. 6), Amendment No. 7 to Schedule 13D filed on September 21, 2016 (Amendment No. 7), Amendment No. 8 to Schedule 13D filed on December 5, 2016 (Amendment No. 8), Amendment No. 9 to Schedule 13D filed on December 16, 2016 (Amendment No. 9), Amendment No. 10 to Schedule 13D filed on January 3, 2017 (Amendment No. 10), Amendment No. 11 to Schedule 13D filed on January 17, 2017 (Amendment No. 11), Amendment No. 12 to Schedule 13D filed on January 27, 2017 (Amendment No. 12), Amendment No. 13 to Schedule 13D (Amendment No. 13) filed on February 7, 2017, Amendment No. 14 to Schedule 13D (Amendment No. 14) filed on February 17, 2017 and Amendment No. 15 to Schedule 13D (Amendment No. 15) filed on March 16, 2017. This Amendment No. 16 is filed jointly on behalf of Carl H. Westcott, Commodore Partners, Ltd., G.K. Westcott LP, Carl Westcott, LLC, Court H. Westcott, and Carla Westcott (the Reporting Persons) relating to their beneficial ownership of the common stock, par value $0.50 per share (the Common Stock) of Comstock Resources, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the Issuer), whose principal executive offices are located at 5300 Town and Country Blvd., Suite 500, Frisco, Texas 75034. On August 1, 2016, the Issuer effected a 1-for-5 reverse stock split.
This Amendment No. 16 is filed pursuant to Rules 13d-1 and 13d-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, to reflect a change aggregating more than one percent (1%) in the beneficial ownership of the outstanding Common Stock in which Carl H. Westcott may be deemed to have a beneficial interest. Unless otherwise indicated, all capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the same meanings as set forth in the Schedule 13D.
Item 2. Identity and Background
Item 3. Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration
The information set forth or incorporated in Items 4 and 6 hereof are incorporated herein by reference.
With respect to each Reporting Person that is a natural person, the shares of Common Stock were acquired with the personal funds of such Reporting Person. The shares of Common Stock held by Commodore Partners, of which Carl Westcott, LLC is the sole general partner, were acquired with funds held by Commodore Partners for the general purpose of investing. The shares of Common Stock held by GK Westcott, of which Carl Westcott, LLC is the sole general partner, were acquired with funds held by GK Westcott for the general purpose of investing.
Item 4. Purpose of Transaction
This Item is being amended and supplemented to add the following:
The information set forth or incorporated in Items 3 and 6 hereof are incorporated herein by reference.
After accounting for all purchases of Common Stock of the Reporting Persons since the filing of Amendment No. 15 (the period of March 16, 2017 through April 12, 2017), a net 209,544 shares of Common Stock were sold by Carl H. Westcott during such period on his own behalf and on behalf of certain other Reporting Persons for an aggregate price of approximately $2,164,438.
Item 5. Interest in Securities of the Issuer.
This Item is being amended and supplemented to add the following:
(b) The responses in rows 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the cover pages of this Statement are hereby incorporated by reference. Each of Court H. Westcott and Carla Westcott directly holds 4,000 and 9,008 shares of Common Stock, respectively, over which Carl H. Westcott shares dispositive power, but not voting power, pursuant to trading authorizations. Additionally, Carl H. Westcott shares dispositive power, but not voting power, pursuant to trading authorizations, of 13,500, 2,050, and 2,000 shares of Common Stock held by Peter Underwood, Francisco Trejo, Jr., and Rosie Greene, respectively. Commodore Partners holds 288,000 shares of Common Stock, over which Carl H. Westcott holds shared voting and dispositive power with Court H. Westcott as the managers of Carl Westcott, LLC, the sole general partner of Commodore Partners. GK Westcott holds 19,000 shares of Common Stock, over which Carl H. Westcott holds shared voting and dispositive power with Court H. Westcott as the managers of Carl Westcott, LLC, the sole general partner of GK Westcott.
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