Austin v. Jennings

This was a petition filed by Mrs. Austin in the Chancery Court for certiorari to review the Board of Review’s denial of her claim for unemployment compensation. Doubting the petition stated a case, the Chancellor set it down for hearing as to whether he should order the writ to issue. Upon the hearing, he dismissed the petition. Petitioner appealed and has assigned errors.

The facts stated in the petition were that petitioner and other claimants were employees of defendant J. Weingarten, Inc., which operated a number of grocery stores, and were members of a labor union, Local 1529, Retail…