SWEET v. BROWN

No. 150.

125 So.2d 261 (1960)

Lester SWEET, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Richard E. BROWN, Administrator, Division of Employment Security, Department of Labor, State of Louisiana, Defendant and Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

December 19, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Self, Many, for plaintiff-appellant.

Lewis D. Dunbar, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee.

Before FRUGE, CULPEPPER, and TATE, JJ.


CULPEPPER, Judge.

This is an appeal by Lester Sweet, claimant for unemployment compensation benefits, from a decision of the Eleventh Judicial District Court sustaining a plea of peremption filed by the administrator of the Division of Employment Security.

The claimant, Lester Sweet, was discharged by his employer, Many Lumber Co., Inc., for being absent from work due to his incarceration in jail on a charge which had no connection with his work. On being...

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