Supreme Court of North Carolina February 3, 1981, 125 (West v. G. D. Reddick, Inc.)

BRANCH, Chief Justice.

The threshold question presented by this appeal is whether we may judicially notice facts not appearing in the record in this case but which appear in a published opinion of the Court of Appeals. We note initially that the record does not disclose any statement concerning an appeal from the order dismissing the original action.