Court Opinion

ID: 9789706
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 01:40:14.742462+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:23.911379
License: Public Domain

*869MACY, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent.
There is nothing in the record on appeal to indicate that the trial court took judicial notice of anything upon which it could consider res judicata and collateral estoppel as a basis for granting the motion to dismiss. The court certainly could not lake judicial notice of the judgment entered on the verdict in Texas West I as the order granting the motion was entered before the judgment.
I agree that a motion to dismiss may be treated as one for summary judgment when matters outside the pleadings are presented to and are not excluded by the court; however, there is nothing in the record which indicates that such was done or that the motion was treated as a motion for summary judgment.
It was error to grant the motion, and it is improper for this Court to now attempt to correct that error by taking judicial notice of a judgment which was not in existence at that time.