Smith v. Department of Employment

BAKES, Justice.

These proceedings were initiated by a claim for unemployment compensation benefits. The claimant respondent Marlene G. Smith had worked for several years as a retail clerk in a Boise department store before losing her job through no fault of her own in the spring of 1975. While she had been employed as a retail clerk, she had taken evening classes at Boise State University. After Smith became unemployed, she enrolled for classes in the 1975 summer semester at Boise State. For the first half of the summer semester, she attended class from 7:00 to 9:00 a. m. five days a week; for…