Case Name: ALVARADO v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1973-03-01
Citations: 45 Mich. App. 382
Docket Number: Docket Nos. 12605, 12614
Parties: ALVARADO v FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Judges: Before: J. H. Gillis, P. J., and Bashara and O’Hara, JJ.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 45
Pages: 382–383

Head Matter:
ALVARADO v FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Unemployment Compensation — Employment Security Appeal Board — Appeal and Error — Jurisdiction—Statutes.
The statute which requires that an unemployment compensation claimant take his appeal from the Employment Security Appeal Board to the circuit court in the county in which he resides or Ingham County is jurisdictional in nature and in no way refers to venue (MCLA 421.38).
Reference for Points in Headnote
48 Am Jur 2d, Labor and Labor Relations § 392.
Appeal from Wayne, John D. O’Hair, J.
Submitted Division 1 January 9, 1973, at Detroit.
(Docket Nos. 12605, 12614.)
Decided March 1, 1973.
Leave to appeal denied, 389 Mich 816.
Appeal by Lewis G. Alvarado and others, employees of Ford Motor Company, from a decision of the Employment Security Appeal Board. Appeal dismissed by the circuit court. Plaintiffs appeal.
Affirmed.
Stephen I. Schlossberg; John A. Fillion, and Jordan Rossen, for plaintiffs.
Wright Tisdale (Joseph A. OReilly and Richard A. Fellrath, of counsel), for defendant Ford Motor Company.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Felix E League, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant Michigan Employment Security Commission._
Before: J. H. Gillis, P. J., and Bashara and O’Hara, JJ.
Former Supreme Court Justice, sitting on the Court of Appeals by assignment pursuant to Const 1963, art 6, § 23 as amended in 1968.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The appellants appeal an order dismissing an appeal taken from the Employment Security Appeal Board to the Wayne County Circuit Court.
Several of the parties to this action were not aggrieved by the decision of the appeal board and were in fact benefited by the decision of that administrative body. They therefore have no grounds to complain.
The remaining parties were not residents of Wayne County at the time the appeal was taken to the Wayne County Circuit Court. MCLA 421.38; MSA 17.540, requires that a claimant take his appeal to the circuit court in the county in which he resides or Ingham County. This statute has been interpreted to be jurisdictional in nature and in no way refers to venue. Peplinski v Employment Security Commission, 359 Mich 665 (1960).
Affirmed._