Freeman v. Con-Agra Frozen Foods

I joined in the original decision of this court to reverse the Commission’s denial of benefits to the appellant, and I respectfuEy dissent from the majority’s decision to now grant appeEee’s petition for rehearing and to affirm the Commission’s decision.

First, I believe that the two cases handed down by our supreme court on June 8, 2000, Frances v. Gaylord Container Corp., 341 Ark. 527, 20 S.W.3d 280 (2000), and July 7, 2000, Crudup v. Regal Ware, Inc., 341 Ark. 804, 20 S.W.3d 900 (2000), are distinguishable and, therefore, are not authority for the case at bar.

In Gaylord, a workers’…