Sweed v. Nye

Five and a half months after the trial court dismissed his case, James Lee Sweed filed a notice of appeal that did not contain all the information required for a notice of restricted appeal. A month later he amended the notice to include the missing information. The court of appeals dismissed the appeal, holding that Sweed’s original, incomplete notice of restricted ap peal was insufficient to invoke its jurisdiction, and the amended notice was not timely filed. We conclude that Sweed’s original notice of appeal invoked the court of appeals’ jurisdiction even though it was incomplete. We…