Wolfe v. Iowa Unemployment Compensation Commission

Appellee, Ethel M. Wolfe, was an employee of appellant Blackhawk Hotel Company, in the Blackhawk Hotel, in Davenport. She worked as a chambermaid, under a Miss Twohey, the head housekeeper. Her usual duties were to clean and care for seventeen guest rooms on the third floor of the hotel. She ceased working in November 1940, and thereafter made claim for unemployment-compensation benefits under chapter 77.2, Code of Iowa, 1939.

Section 1551.11 of the Code provides in part as follows:

“An individual shall be disqualified for benefits:

“A. Voluntary quitting. If he has left his work voluntarily…