Court Opinion

ID: 9673590
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:14:53.968837+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:22.927409
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SHANNON, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the affirmance of the judgment of the trial court.
In appeal number 12,642, appellants filed a transcript and a statement of facts. This Court reversed the judgment of the trial court and remanded the cause to the trial court for entry of judgment nunc pro tunc. After entry of judgment nunc pro tunc, appellants then perfected their appeal in appeal number 13,234. Appellants filed a transcript, but not a statement of facts in the present appeal, number 13,234.
Appellees’ reply point one is that the judgment must be affirmed because appellants failed to preserve error by filing a statement of facts.
In response, appellants argue that the statement of facts filed in appeal number 12,642 should be considered as also filed in the present appeal, number 13,234.
An appellate court may take notice of its records for purposes of res judicata, but an appellate court may not refer to the statement of facts of another case “... for the purpose of ascertaining a fact not shown in the record of the case before it ...” (Emphasis supplied by Supreme Court). Victory v. State, 158 S.W.2d 760 (1942); State v. Savage, 151 S.W. 530 (Tex.1912); Armendiaz v. Serna, 40 Tex. 291 (1874); Nolan v. Bettis, 577 S.W.2d 551 (Tex.Civ.App.1979, writ ref’d n. r. e.).
Most of appellants’ points of error attack the answers of the jury to the court’s charge. In the absence of a statement of facts, it is presumed that evidence supports the jury’s findings. Guthrie v. National Homes Corporation, 394 S.W.2d 494 (Tex.1965). It is upon this basis that I would affirm the judgment.