John Duffie Baker III, Carley Baker, Kay Baker, and Sandra Waller v. Farmers New World Life Insurance Company and Joshua Haessly
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Opinion
In The Court of Appeals Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo
No. 07-25-00332-CV
JOHN DUFFIE BAKER III, CARLEY BAKER, KAY BAKER, AND SANDRA WALLER, APPELLANTS
V.
FARMERS NEW WORLD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY AND JOSHUA HAESSLY, APPELLEES
On Appeal from the 48th District Court Tarrant County, Texas Trial Court No. 048-345172-23, Honorable Christopher Taylor, Presiding
June 8, 2026 ORDER OF ABATEMENT AND REMAND Before PARKER, C.J., and DOSS and PRATT, JJ.
Appellants, John Duffie Baker, III, Carley Baker, Kay Baker, and Sandra Waller,
appeal from the trial court’s orders granting summary judgment in favor of Appellees,
Farmers New World Life Insurance Company and Joshua Haessly. 1 Because the
appellate record does not contain certain exhibits referenced in Appellants’ summary-
1 Originally appealed to the Second Court of Appeals, this appeal was transferred to this Court by
the Texas Supreme Court pursuant to its docket equalization efforts. See TEX. GOV’T CODE § 73.001. judgment response, we abate the appeal and remand the cause to the trial court for
supplementation of the clerk’s record.
On April 10, 2025, Appellants filed “Plaintiffs’ and Intervenors’ First Supplement to
their Combined Response to Defendant Farmers New World Life Insurance Company’s
Traditional Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and No-Evidence Motion for Summary
Judgment.” In that filing, Appellants represented that Exhibits 5 through 7, consisting of
recorded telephone calls in WAV format, could not be electronically filed with the district
clerk due to limitations of the e-filing system and restrictions on accepted file formats. In
lieu thereof, Appellants provided a hyperlink to a Dropbox link purportedly containing the
exhibits and furnished the trial court with a flash drive containing same.
This Court, however, is unable to access Exhibits 5 through 7 through the Dropbox
link embedded in Appellants’ supplemental response and therefore cannot consider or
review those exhibits as part of the appellate record. Moreover, even if the exhibits were
accessible through the link, the Court would be unable to verify their authenticity or
integrity in that format. Accordingly, the trial court is directed to ensure that Exhibits 5
through 7 are provided to the district clerk on appropriate electronic media, such as a
flash drive or other compatible storage device, in their original format. The trial court shall
further ensure that the exhibits are made part of the trial court record and are available
for transmission to this Court.
The trial court shall direct the district clerk to prepare and file a supplemental clerk's
record identifying and containing Exhibits 5 through 7 and to transmit the exhibits to this
Court on the electronic media provided on or before July 8, 2026.
It is so ordered.
Per Curiam
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