FAIR v. ST. JOSEPH'S HOSP., INC.

No. 9328SC140.

437 S.E.2d 875 (1993)

113 N.C. App. 159

Vanessa FAIR, Petitioner, v. ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL, INC., and Employment Security Commission of North Carolina, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

December 21, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baley, Baley & Clontz, P.A. by Stanford K. Clontz, Asheville, for petitioner.

T.S. Whitaker, Chief Counsel and V. Henry Gransee, Jr., Deputy Chief Counsel, Raleigh, for Employment Security Com'n.


LEWIS, Judge.

Vanessa Fair ("petitioner") was discharged from her position as a health unit coordinator at St. Joseph's Hospital for fighting with a co-worker. The evidence shows that one of petitioner's co-workers "popped" her with a rubber band and that petitioner, reacting in the "heat of anger," assaulted the co-worker by shoving her into a medical cart and then hitting her in the right eye. Petitioner was thereafter discharged for wilfully and without good cause...

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