VENTRESS v. RICE

SC 84.

270 So.2d 100 (1972)

In re Tom VENTRESS, as Director of the Department of Industrial Relations of the State of Alabama, and The Central Foundry Company, a corp. v. Clarence RICE et al. In re Tom VENTRESS, as Director of the Department of Industrial Relations of the State of Alabama, and The Central Foundry Company, a corporation.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

November 9, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubbard & Waldrop, Tuscaloosa, for Central Foundry Co.

J. Eugene Foster, Montgomery, for The Department of Industrial Relations.

Rosen, Wright & Harwood, P. A., Tuscaloosa, for respondents.


MADDOX, Justice.

If a worker's sole reason for refusing to cross a picket line and return to work at a struck plant is a real, genuine, well-founded fear of violence, is he entitled to receive unemployment compensation benefits? The Court of Civil Appeals held that he was. We granted certiorari to review that decision in light of the opinion announced by this Court in Ex Parte McCleney, 286 Ala. 288, 239 So.2d 311 (1970)...

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