Meany v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Mencer,

This is an interstate appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) *578which denied the claim of David W. Meany (claimant) for unemployment compensation benefits. His claim had been initially denied by the Bureau of Employment Security but its decision had been reversed by a referee who allowed the claim.

The basis of the Board’s order was that the claimant had.voluntarily left work without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature within the meaning of Section 402(b) (1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, Act of December 5,1936,…