Scott v. Scott Paper Company

MERRILL, Justice.

The employer, Scott Paper Company, and the Department of Industrial Relations petitioned this court for writ of certiorari to review a decision of the Court of Appeals, in which that court reversed a decision of the Circuit Court o'f Mobile County holding an employee not entitled to unemployment benefits

The employee, Scott, was discharged for removal of company property without authorization. The facts are set out in the opinion of the Court of Appeals, 195 So.2d 536, and they will not be repeated here. It is sufficient to say that the employee was stopped by a plant guard as…