SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO. v. THORNBROUGH

No. 5-2214.

341 S.W.2d 1 (1960)

SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, Appellant, v. C. R. THORNBROUGH, Commissioner of Labor; J. L. Bland, Administrator, Arkansas Employment Security Division; and Ouida R. Mills, Claimant, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

December 19, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Gayle Windsor, Jr., and Edgar Mayfield, Little Rock, for appellant.

Lowell D. Gibbons and Luke Arnett, Little Rock, for appellees.


HOLT, Justice.

This is an unemployment compensation case. The appellant, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, employed Mrs. Ouida R. Mills during August of 1953 as a telephone operator in the West Memphis exchange of the company. In 1956 Mrs. Mills requested a pregnancy leave which was made effective on July 29, 1956 and under standard company policy, its termination date was fixed at July 28, 1957, one year later. At the time Mrs. Mills applied for a pregnancy leave...

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