Farmland Foods, Inc. v. Abendroth

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Holmes, J.:

This is an appeal by Farmland Foods, Inc. (Farmland) from a district court ruling sustaining a decision of the Employment Security Board of Review (Board) upholding a referee’s decision that qualified Farmland’s former employee, Luis S. Herrerra, for unemployment compensation benefits.

Herrerra had been employed as a meat cutter by Farmland for about eight years prior to his discharge. On December 6, 1976, one of appellant’s foremen observed Herrerra place a piece of rope under his butcher’s frock. The foreman feared Herrerra was going to use…