Sweed v. Nye

How courts have described this case

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• holding that timely filed notice of appeal invokes appellate court jurisdiction even when notice of appeal is defective because parties are permitted to amend notice of appeal
• holding that incomplete notice of restricted appeal was sufficient to invoke appellate court’s jurisdiction
• holding that the appellate court erred in dismissing a restricted appeal for want of jurisdiction when the original notice of restricted appeal was timely filed, but the amended notice of restricted appeal was not
• holding court of appeals erred by dismissing appeal where the original notice of appeal was timely filed for a restricted appeal and later the notice was timely amended
• stating an original notice of appeal that was defective but timely filed “properly invoked the court of appeals’ jurisdiction [and] was timely amended.”
• noting that timely-filed notice of appeal invokes appellate court’s jurisdiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).