SEPTA v. UNEMPL. COMP. BD. OF REVIEW ET AL.

No. 1992 C.D. 1979.

55 Pa.Commw. 10 (1980)

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review and Doris L. Brown, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

November 24, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph F. Keener, Jr., with him Norman Hegge, Jr., for petitioner.

Jerome Balter, for respondent, Doris L. Brown.

Charles Hasson, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Argued October 9, 1980, before Judges MacPHAIL, WILLIAMS, JR. and PALLADINO, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE MacPHAIL, November 24, 1980:

Doris L. Brown, Claimant, was employed by Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) as a trolley operator. She was discharged for willful misconduct by reason of a physical altercation with a passenger alleged to have occurred on May 18, 1978. Claimant was granted unemployment compensation benefits by the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) and SEPTA has appealed from that order.

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