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ACCEPTED
                                                                                      04-15-00548-CV
                                                                          FOURTH COURT OF APPEALS
                                                                               SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
                                                                                11/23/2015 5:20:26 PM
                                                                                       KEITH HOTTLE
                                                                                               CLERK

                         CAUSE NO. 04-15-00548-CV

                         IN THE COURT OF APPEALS          FILED IN
                                                   4th COURT OF APPEALS
                    FOURTH COURT OF APPEALS DISTRICTSAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
                                                   11/23/2015 5:20:26 PM
                                                       KEITH E. HOTTLE
                          SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS                Clerk

RUFINA REYES YANEZ,

      Appellant

           v.

AMERICAN GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,

      Appellee

    MOTION FOR THE COURT TO TAKE MANDATORY JUDICIAL
                        NOTICE

TO THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS:

      Comes Now Appellant, RUFINA REYES YANEZ, asking the Honorable

Court of Appeals to take judicial notice of a document filed by Appellant, included

herein and entitled Motion For Extension of Time To File Appellant's Brief, which

establishes that Appellant's appeal should not have been dismissed for want of

prosecution.

      1.        RUFINA REYES YANEZ is appealing the summary judgment

rendered against her and in favor of AMERICAN GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE

COMPANY on July 21, 2015.

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      2.    On October 28, 2015, the Court of Appeals entered an order

dismissing the appeal for want of prosecution. Appellant filed a motion to reinstate

the appeal. The Court of Appeals had previously accepted Appellant's Notice of

Appeal provided Appellant paid the filing fee. Appellant has not met those

conditions. Verburgt v Domer, 959 S.W. 2d 615,616-617 (Tex. 1997).

      3.    As to the findings that Appellant failed to prosecute her appeal

RUFINA REYES YANEZ enters a plea of non est factum. Rule 201 of the Texas

Rules of Evidence makes is mandatory that the Court of Appeals take judicial

notice of its own records and of the attached Exhibit A.

      4.    On September 3, 2015, Appellant filed her notice of Appeal. On

September 18, 2015, the District Clerk filed an incomplete Clerk's Record that did

not comply with Rule 34.5(a) of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure. The

Court of Appeals accepted the record without directing of Appeals accepted the

record without directing the District Clerk to comply with Rule 34.5(a). See Rule

34.5(d) of the Rules of Appellate Procedure.

      The Clerk's Record did not include a copy of the Court Docket Sheet, the

motion for mandatory judicial notice filed on July 10, 2015, the Advisory to the

Court, and other relevant documents. Attached as Exhibit B is a copy of the letter

to the District Clerk asking for a Supplementary Clerk's Record.

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      5.     In Exhibit A, attached Appellant made it lucidly clear that she was

asking for an extension of time to file Appellant's Brief and for leave to file her

notice of appeal. Rule 201 of the Texas Rules of Evidence compels the Court of

Appeals to take notice of the adjudication facts contained in Exhibit A.

      6.     PRAYER.      Premises       considered,   Appellant   RUFINA        REYES

YANEZ asks the Honorable Court of Appeals to take mandatory judicial notice of

Exhibit A and to reinstate her appeal.

                                         Respectfully submitted,
                                                       ;

                                         A
                                         Attorney At Law
                                         State Bar No. 20211100
                                         1519 Washington St, Suite # 1.
                                         Laredo, Texas 78040
                                         Telephone No. (956) 726-1638
                                         Email: armandotrevinolaw@hotmail.com
                                         Attorney For Appellant

      Subscribed and sworn to before me on the 23 rd day of November, 2015, by

Armando Trevifio, Attorney for Appellant.

                                                Noylry PiIblic, State of Texas

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                        CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

      I certify that on November 23, 2015, I served a copy of the Motion To
Reinstate Appeal was sent via hand-delivery or e-service to Jason A. Richardson,
Edison, Mcdowell & Hetherington LLP, 3200 Southwest Freeway, Suite 2100,
Houston, Texas 77027, jason.richardson@emhllp.com, Webb County District
Clerk's office Esther Degollado.

                                           A    ANDO TREVINO

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EXHIBIT A
                                                                                                                  FOURTH COURT Of APPEll
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                                 04-1 ~-00548-CV
                     CAUSE NO. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

                         IN THE COURT OF APPEALS
                     FOURTH COURT
                                !
                                  OF APPEALS DISTRICT
                            SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

RUFINA REYES YANEZ,
    Appellant

VS.

AMERICAN GENERAL ~IF.E ,INSURANCE COMPANY,
   Appellee

                     Trial Court No. 2014CVFOOO504-D3
                 S
           341 1' DISTRICT COURT OF WEBB COUNTY, TEXAS

                MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE
                              APPELLANT'S BRIEF

TO THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS:

      1.       Appellant RUFINA REYES YANEZ files this motion for extension

of time of 15 days to file her notice of Appeal regarding the final summary

judgment that was entered on July 20,2015. The Notice of Appeal is included with

this request for Extension.

      2.       The right to appeal is a valuable right and the Supreme Court has

made it clear that such a right should not be denied if good cause exists for

extending the time to appeal. See Verburgt v. Dorner, 959 S.W. 2nd 615, 616-17

(Tex. 1997).

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                                  A.T. RUFINA ~"'ANEZ. MonON FOR LEAVE TO FI~E MOTION FOA EX~NSION OFTlMHO FIL~APPELlANrs BRIEf
      3.       Good cause exists for granting of the extension. During the past

several months AppeUanfs counsel had been involved in Cause No. 15-01-13356-

ZCV, David Rodriguez, et al vs. Rose Rock Midstream Field Services, L.L,C., et al

filed in the 293 rd District Court of Zavala County, Texas, a four vehicle collision

that resulted in six deaths and injuries to other persons. The case has involved and

will continue to involve multiple depositions, extensive requests for discovery, and

examination of the vehicles. '

      4.       PRAYER.     PreD;lises Considered, Appellant asks the Court to grant

this motion.

                                                                            submitted,

                                                       NDOTRE
                                                State Bar No. 20211100
                                                1519 Washington St., Suite One
                                                Laredo, Texas 78040
                                                Tel (956) 726-1638
                                                Email: annandotrevino!aw(rugmaiLcolll
                                                                          '""
                                                Attorney for Appellant
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                                 ,.   ,
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      Subscribed and sworn to by Armando Trevifio on the                                                    3'                   day of
September~   2015.

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                                      I'..T. RUFINA AYAI'II