In re Lieberman

Appeal by the claimants from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board determining that claimants were ineligible to receive benefits on the grounds that they were not totally unemployed. (Labor Law, §§ 522, 591.) Claimants, husband and wife, are the sole shareholders and officers of a corporation formerly engaged in the plumbing and heating contracting business. From the organization of the business in 1955 until August or September, 1961, when they decided to cease operations for economic reasons, claimants devoted themselves full time to the business. Although it accepted no…