Bielke v. American Crystal Sugar Co.

Stone, -Justice.

This is a test case and the first coming to us under the Minnesota unemployment compensation law, Ex. Sess. L. 1936, c. 2, as amended by L. 1937, c. 306. 2 Peter W. Bielke, petitioner below and respondent here, filed a claim for unemployment benefits which was allowed first by an “appeal tribunal” (L. 1937, c. 306, § 5) and then by the commission. The allowance took no account of the conceded fact that, as an employe of relator’s beet sugar factory at Chaska, Bielke’s employment was seasonal as defined by Ex. Sess. L. 1936, c. 2, § 5(f)(1). The result was an order…