Order entered April 21, 2021
In The
Court of Appeals
Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
No. 05-19-00630-CV
TRENT S. GRIFFIN, Appellant
V.
AMERICAN ZURICH INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee
On Appeal from the 101st Judicial District Court
Dallas County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. DC-13-05893
ORDER
Before the Court are appellant’s “Second Motion Requesting [this Court] to
Take Judicial Notice of Adjudicative Facts” and appellee’s response and motion to
strike the same. We may take judicial notice of adjudicative facts that are not
subject to reasonable dispute because they are (1) generally known within the trial
court’s territorial jurisdiction or (2) can be accurately and readily determined from
sources whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned. TEX. R. EVID. 201(b);
Hudson v. Markum, 931 S.W.2d 336, 337 n.1 (Tex. App.—Dallas 1996, no writ)
(appellate court took judicial notice of funeral and death announcement in Dallas
Morning News); see In re Estate of Hemsley, 460 S.W.3d 629, 638–39 (Tex.
App.—El Paso 2014, pet. denied) (taking judicial notice that it was widely reported
on local, state, and national news that Hemsley was buried in El Paso on
November 21, 2012 at Fort Bliss National Cemetery).
The matters appellant seeks to have us take judicial notice of in his seventy-
seven page motion (including attachments) do not fall within either category, and
in any event, we need not consider such matters to decide the single issue
presented to us and decided in our memorandum opinion issued today.
Having considered the parties’ motions and related responses, we conclude
both parties’ motions should be, and are, DENIED as MOOT.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
/s/ KEN MOLBERG
JUSTICE