Marshall Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

In this unemployment compensation case the question is whether the claimant filed a timely appeal from the decision of the referee denying benefits to him. The Board of Review without passing on the merits of the claim, dismissed the appeal as having been taken too late.

Section 502 of the Unemployment Compensation Law of December 5,1936, P. L. 2897, 43 PS §822 as last amended, relates to appeals from the referee’s decision to the board. It provides inter alia as follows:

“The parties and the department shall be duly notified of the referee’s decision, and the reasons…