Richards v. McKeown

1. We need not decide whether on the record before us the trial judge can be said to have taken judicial notice of the accuracy and general acceptability as authority of the life expectancy tables issued by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (Life Tables, Vital Statistics of the United States, 1976, volume 11-Section 5) and certified by the Department.1 We take judicial notice that standard mortality tables are regularly used by attorneys, accountants and actuaries and that these HEW tables on their face are reliable. Morris v. Morris, 302 Ky. 615, 617 (1946).…