Keller v. Walker

GUITTARD, Chief Justice.

In this petition for writ of mandamus, an unsuccessful worker’s compensation claimant seeks review of an order of the district court sustaining a contest to her affidavit of inability to pay the cost of an appeal. The record before us contains the evidence at the hearing on the contest but does not include certain evidence at the trial, of which the trial court took judicial notice. In the absence of any showing that the evidence of which the court took judicial notice would not have supported the court’s ruling, no abuse of discretion is shown. Consequently, we deny…