Claywell v. Review Board of the Indiana Department of Employment & Training Services

ON PETITION TO TRANSFER

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

The Fifth District of the Court of Appeals held that appellant Debra Claywell's failure to file a timely assignment of errors after an adverse decision on her unemployment compensation claim deprived the court of jurisdiction and that therefore the appeal had to be dismissed. Claywell v. Review Bd. (1994), Ind.App., 635 N.E.2d 181. Claywell asks that we reverse, citing Hogan v. Review Board (1994), Ind.App., 635 N.E.2d 172, for the proposition that such procedural failings do not necessarily divest appellate courts of Jurisdiction. Id. at 174. In…