Lanyon v. Administrator, Unemployment Compensation Act

The plaintiffs are 395 in number. On November 7,1945, they were in the employ of The Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company, hereinafter called the company. Subsequent to that date, they applied for relief under the Unemployment Compensation Act. A panel of three commissioners, sustaining the administrator’s ruling, awarded them benefits for twenty-two weeks. On the company’s appeal from that decision, the Superior Court reduced the compensable weeks to four. Both the company and the plaintiffs have appealed from the judgment rendered by the court. The ultimate grievance of the plaintiffs is…