Jones v. Employment Security Commission

The late Judge Watts was a member of the panel to whom this case was submitted for determination, but did not participate in the preparation of this opinion.

Plaintiff, C. B. Jones, an employee of the Browne Morse Company from July 26, 1962, until December 12, 1962, was discharged for an event which had occurred in the plant the previous evening.

Shortly after midnight, plaintiff had finished his shift and had punched out. Pie and a fellow employee decided to have a cup of coffee in the plant’s lunchroom before leaving the plant. Plaintiff had no small change for the coffee-vending machine, so…