Copen v. Hix

After careful consideration of the record, I respectfully dissent from the opinion of the majority of the Court in holding that the Board of Review of the West Virginia Department of Unemployment Compensation was justified in its finding that claimants did not sustain the burden of proving that they were not “ (one) participating, financing or directly interested in” the labor dispute between the supervisors’ union and C. H. Mead Coal Company, “and (two) did not belong to a grade or class of workers which was participating, financing or directly interested” in such dispute.

With deference I…