Grand Prairie Independent School District v. Southern Parts Imports, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a court of appeals has jurisdiction over any appeal where appellant files an instrument in a bona fide attempt to invoke appellate court jurisdiction
• holding that the filing of a notice of appeal rather than a cost bond under the former rules sufficed as a bona fide attempt to appeal
• holding that a court of appeals may not dismiss an appeal for filing the wrong instrument without providing an opportunity to amend when appellant has made a timely bona fide attempt to invoke our jurisdiction
• holding that a notice of appeal filed when an appeal bond is required to perfect is a bona fide attempt to invoke appellate jurisdiction, and that the court of appeals’ dismissal was improper without first affording an opportunity to correct the defective perfection of appeal
• providing that party should be given opportunity to amend defective perfecting instrument before court of appeals dismisses appeal
• holding that if an appellant “timely files a document in a bona fide attempt to invoke the appellate court’s jurisdiction,” the appellate court, on motion, must allow the appellant an opportunity to amend or refile the instrument required to perfect the appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).