place to change venue was an adjoining county. Brown appeals. ISSUES I. Whether Brown’s appeal of the verdict following his trial before Judge Williams was timely? II. Whether county-to-county transfers of Magistrate’s Court eases are legally permissible? LAWIANALYSIS I. Subject Matter Jurisdiction and Appealability Subject matter jurisdiction is the power of a court to hear and determine cases of a general class to which the proceedings in question belong. City of Camden v. Brassell, 326 S.C. 556, 486 S.E.2d 492 (Ct.App.1997). The failure of a party to timely serve its notice of appeal will divest the reviewing tribunal of subject matter jurisdiction, thus resulting in dismissal of the appeal. See First Carolina Nat’l Bank v. A & S Enters., Inc., 272 S.C. 339, 251 S.E.2d 762 (1979) (<HOLDING>); Burnett v. South Carolina State Highway
holding that the defendants failure to timely serve a notice of appeal and docketing statement did not prejudice the plaintiff and therefore would not serve as a basis to dismiss the appeal holding that the filing of an opening brief within the time period for filing a notice of appeal could constitute notice of appeal holding appellants failure to serve their notice of appeal of the circuit courts judgment within the statutory period necessitated dismissal of their appeal for want of jurisdiction holding that when the district court dismissed rather than transferred a case not within its jurisdiction and a party appealed that dismissal the circuit court could consider only the propriety of the dismissal on appeal and determining that the circuit court lacked jurisdiction on appeal to consider the merits of the action holding that identification of appellant in notice of appeal is a jurisdictional requirement and that the failure to name a party in a notice to appeal constitutes a failure of that party to appeal