Director of the Division of Employment Security v. Fingerman

The claimant’s husband had secured employment in California to commence in six weeks. She left her job to help pack up their home, move, and seek a new, permanent home in California. A review examiner denied unemployment benefits under G. L. c. 151A, § 25 (e) (1); but the board of review "found” that her leaving "was involuntary since such leaving was for urgent, compelling and necessitous reasons,” and modified the decision, awarding benefits. A judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston reversed, ruling that the question of voluntary separation was a question of fact, that the…