Opinion ID: 2168657
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Heading: Records Reviewable on Appeal.

Text: In order to resolve this appeal, we must determine what evidence and records can be reviewed by this court on appeal. It is provided by statute that judicial notice may be taken of any fact not subject to reasonable dispute, when such fact is capable of accurate and ready determination by resort to sources whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned. Neb.Rev.Stat. § 27-201(2)(b) (Reissue 1995). It is well established that where cases are interwoven and interdependent and the controversy involved has already been considered and determined by the court in a former proceeding involving one of the parties now before it, the court has the right to examine its own records and take judicial notice of its own proceedings and judgments in the former action. In re Adoption of Trystyn D., 259 Neb. 539, 611 N.W.2d 112 (2000); Baltensperger v. Wellensiek, 250 Neb. 938, 554 N.W.2d 137 (1996). Similarly, appellate courts in this state may take judicial notice of a document, including briefs filed in an appeal, in a separate but related action concerning the same subject matter in the same court. Holste v. Burlington Northern RR. Co., 256 Neb. 713, 592 N.W.2d 894 (1999); State Security Savings Co. v. Pelster, 207 Neb. 158, 296 N.W.2d 702 (1980); State v. Vann, 2 Neb.App. 946, 519 N.W.2d 568 (1994). We, therefore, review the briefs and the transcript filed in the appeal of the decree in the consideration of the instant appeal.