Warwick Towers Council of Co-Owners Ex Rel. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. v. Park Warwick L.P.

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• holding that appellant must be afforded opportunity to amend defective notice of appeal where it made bona fide attempt to invoke appellate jurisdiction
• holding that appellant must be afforded opportunity to amend defective notice of appeal where it made bona fide attempt to invoke appellate jurisdiction
• holding insurer should have been permitted to amend notice to name itself as appellant and merits of appeal should have been addressed
• holding insurer that filed notice of appeal only in its insured’s name made a bona fide attempt to invoke appellate jurisdiction over its own challenges to trial court’s judgment
• holding, in determining presence of jurisdiction, appellate courts do not look to form or substance of instrument filed but consider whether it reflected a bona fide attempt to invoke appellate jurisdiction
• holding the insurer made a bona fide attempt to appeal by filing a notice of appeal in the name of its insured and the court of appeals erred by not allowing it to amend its notice of appeal to name itself

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