Frigidaire Division v. Board of Review

97 N.E.2d 96, 59 Ohio Law. Abs. 302, 43 Ohio Op. 455, 1950 Ohio Misc. LEXIS 375
CourtMontgomery County Court of Common Pleas
DecidedFebruary 16, 1950
DocketNo. 100794
StatusPublished
Cited by2 cases

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Frigidaire Division v. Board of Review, 97 N.E.2d 96, 59 Ohio Law. Abs. 302, 43 Ohio Op. 455, 1950 Ohio Misc. LEXIS 375 (Ohio Super. Ct. 1950).

Opinion

OPINION

By MILLS, J.

This cause came on for consideration of the motion of the attorney general, appearing for the Board of Review of the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation, one of the appellees herein, and moves the court for an order dismissing the attempted appeal herein for the reason that the notice of appeal filed by appellant, Frigidaire Division, General Motors Corporation, fails to set forth the decision appealed from as required by law, and refers to Zier v. Bureau of Unemployment Compensation, 151 Oh St, 123, 38 O. O. 573, Judge Matthias, in his decision therein, seemed to follow Kinsman v. Evatt, 145 Oh St, 52, 30 O. O. 279, Dayton Rental v. Evatt, 145 Oh St, 215, 30 O. O. 447, and American Restaurant & Lunch Co. v. Glander, 147 Oh St, 147, 34 O. O. 8.

Sec. 1346-4 GC pertinent to appeal is as follows:

[303]*303“Such appeal shall be taken by the filing by appellant of a notice of appeal with the clerk of such court and with the board of review. Such notice of appeal shall set forth

“(1) The decision appealed from and the errors therein complained of.

“(2) Proof of the filing of such notice with the board of review shall be filed with the clerk of such court.

“(3) All other interested parties before the board of review or the referee shall be made appellees.

“(4) The appellant shall serve notice of the appeal upon all appellees by registered mail or actual delivery to his last known post office address unless such notice is waived.”

The appellant has complied with two, three and four and the question before the court is to determine what the legislature meant when they said “set forth.” Appellant claims that the following complies with the words “set forth”:

“Frigidaire Division, General Motors Corporation, Appellant, hereby gives notice of appeal to the Common Pleas Court of Montgomery County, Ohio, from the decision of the Board of Review, Bureau of Unemployment Compensation, State of Ohio, in re Claim of Elmer C. Coldiron, Acme, West Virginia, Appeals Docket No. 61566, Date of mailing June 14,1949, affirming decision of referee dated January 7, 1948.
“Appellant says that the decision of the Board of Review is erroneous and against the just rights of this appellant in the following respects,”

and then names the various errors, five in number.

The tax cases referred to by Judge Matthias in his decision covered appeals in tax cases and not cases involving unemployment compensation. Sec. 5611 GC, refers to appeals from the tax commissioner, says:

“The notice of such appeal shall set forth or shall have attached thereto and incorporated therein by reference, a true copy of the notice sent by the commissioner to the tax payer of the final determination complained of, and shall also specify the error or errors therein complained of.”

This is a different statute covering a different subject. Judge Matthias was referring to something else; he was referring to the fact that the appellant failed to set forth the [304]*304specific errors that the board of review, was guilty of. In the instant case, appellant here has set forth the case appealed from, being 61566, involving Elmer C. Coldiron, of Acme, West Virginia, the date of mailing June 14, 1949, affirming the decision of the referee dated January 7, 1948, which shows it is the decision of the Board of Review he was appealing from, and the file of the Board of Review filed with the clerk of Common Pleas Court is a certified transcript of the record and proceedings pertaining to the decision complained of and the evidence considered by the Board of Review, all of which advises the court reviewing the case of what transpired at the hearing and every step taken from the time the man left the employment of the Frigidaire Corporation to the date of the hearing in Common Pleas Court.

It is the opinion of this court that if the statute meant to copy the decision from which the appeal is made it would have said so, either copy it word for word in the notice of appeal, .or else copy it and refer to it as Exhibit A. In the case before Judge Matthias the appellant did not comply with all .four provisions of §1346-4 GC, in that the appellant filed the •following notice of appeal in the Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County:

“The undersigned claimant hereby gives notice of appeal from the decision of the board of review denying the right to compensation, in accordance with his right to appeal under §1346-4 GC”

thus failing to do several things that would apprise the court of a single ground or what decision he referred to. In the instant case the board of review, the Common Pleas Court, the employe, everyone, is given notice, referring to the proper case number and the final decision, complying with the law. A copy of the decision was filed by the Board of Review in the Common Pleas Court. What would be the object of having that several paged decision copied in an appeal when the original decision, or a copy, would be filed and was filed in this case by the Board of Review as required by law, together with all the exhibits and transcript of the evidence. It would only encumber the record. In looking to the intent of the legislature, the court cannot conceive that the legislature would require appellant to do a vain thing and thus further encumber the record. Everything is before the court that is necessary for the court to use to determine this action if the parties will appear.

[305]*305It is the opinion of the court, therefore, that the motion to dismiss the appeal should be overruled.

ON TRANSCRIPT OF EVIDENCE

Common Pleas Court, Montgomery County.

No. 100794. Decided March 8, 1950.

This cause comes on to be heard upon the transcript of evidence, exhibits, findings and the opinions of the Board of Review and the record of the proceedings pertaining to this action on an appeal from the decision of the Board of Review of the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation allowing Elmer C. Coldiron, one of the appellees in this case, benefits under the unemployment compensation statutes, §1345-1 to §1346-5 GC, and the extensive arguments of counsel for appellant and appellees.

The record shows that Elmer C. Coldiron, claimant, was first employed by Frigidaire Division, General Motors Corporation, Dayton, Ohio, on April 4, 1944, and continued in such employment except for a short lay off period in 1945, until September 30, 1946. The record is plain that on September 30, 1946 claimant voluntarily quit his work with Frigidaire Division, without notice, and without just cause, after having refused a job assignment, and it is undisputed that he quit without just cause on September 30, 1946.

The record shows that when he left the Frigidaire Division there was a job he could do similar to the one he had been doing, which was inspection work, had he wanted to remain at Frigidaire Division.

Coldiron went to Colorado where he worked picking up beets for the United States Government Farm Extension Service at Loveland, Colorado, where he was employed during the period from October 28, 1946 to November 6, 1946. He quit that job because a heavy snow prevented continuation of the work.

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