Opinion
No. 18,558.
Filed May 17, 1954.
APPEAL — Briefs — Rule 2-17 (e) — Where Brief Presents No Question Decision Will Be Affirmed. — Where unsigned brief contained no assignment of errors, the statement of the issues is indefinite and uncertain, the decision of the Board is not set out, there is no narrative recital of the evidence and there is no compliance with Rule 2-17 (e), the Appellate Court affirmed the decision of the Review Board for the reason that the brief failed to present any question whatever for review on appeal.
From the Review Board of Indiana Employment Security Division.
Verna Bacon appealed from an adverse decision by the Review Board and filed a brief in his own behalf.
Affirmed. By the court in banc.
Verna Bacon, pro se, for appellant.
Edwin K. Steers, Attorney General, and William S. McMaster, Deputy Attorney General, for appellee.
We have before us an unsigned brief of four pages which, from its contents, we assume was filed by the appellant or in his behalf. It contains no assignment of errors and the statement of the issues is indefinite and uncertain to the extent that we can only surmise what question was involved in the hearing before the Review Board. The decision of the board is not set out and all we are told concerning it is that it is in favor of the appellant's employer. The brief contains no narrative recital of the evidence but in lieu thereof we are referred to various pages and lines of the transcript where the appellant concludes certain facts are established. No argument whatever is made as contemplated by Rule 2-17 (e) and nowhere in the brief is a proposition stated or an authority cited.
By reason of the total inadequacy of the brief to present any question whatever for review the decision of the Review Board is affirmed.
NOTE. — Reported in 119 N.E.2d 438.