McMunn v. Department of Public Lands

SHEPARD, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of denial of unemployment benefits. In August of 1970 claimant was discharged from the Armed Forces and sought and obtained employment with the Department of Public Lands in St. Maries, Idaho. Claimant was hired as a firefighter and assigned duties as a member of a “brush crew.” After working a few days out of a station in St. Maries, Idaho, claimant learned that he was to be assigned to a crew which lived at a camp in the woods and that members of the crew returned to St. Maries only on week-ends. Upon learning of such assignment, claimant…