Clay v. Crooks Industries

BAKES, Justice.

Claimant John Melvin Clay has appealed from the order of the Industrial Commission denying him unemployment compensation benefits for which he applied after leaving a job with Crooks Industries. Clay had been employed by Crooks Industries at various times over a fifteen year period, but he had last begun work for it during August of 1971 when he was hired, according to the testimony of John Crooks, the owner of Crooks Industries, as a “shop engineer” whose “duties were of a much higher nature than that of a welder or machinist because of his inventive mind.” Clay, who…