Coleman v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

The appellant, John Coleman, was laid off from his employment under circumstances which qualified him *296to receive unemployment compensation benefits. About two weeks later, he returned to his employer’s place of business to obtain his final paycheck and engaged in a heated argument with his employer’s personnel manager,' whom, he assaulted. Coleman’s conduct on this occasion was clearly willful misconduct under Section 402(e) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, Act of Dec. 5, 1936, Second Ex. Sess., P.L. (1937) 2897, as amended, 43 P.S. §802(e). The Unemployment…