MERCADO, APLNT. v. UNEMPLOYMENT COMP.

No. 375 C.D. 1974.

17 Pa.Commw. 45 (1975)

Reinaldo R. Mercado, Appellant, v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Appellee.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

January 15, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Breslauer, with him Alan Linder and J. Richard Gray, for appellant.

Charles G. Hasson, Assistant Attorney General, with him Sydney Reuben, Assistant Attorney General, and Israel Packel, Attorney General, for appellee.

Argued December 6, 1974, before Judges KRAMER, WILKINSON, JR. and ROGERS, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE WILKINSON, January 15, 1975:

Claimant-appellant, a native of Puerto Rico who does not speak, read, or understand English, filed a claim for unemployment compensation. The merits of the claim are not before us, the matter having turned entirely on whether claimant-appellant had a legally sufficient excuse for filing his appeal from the determination of the Bureau late and a legally sufficient excuse for filing his appeal from the decision of...

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