Department of Industrial Relations v. Drummond

SIMPSON, Judge.

This is a suit by appellee for benefits allegedly due under the Alabama Unemployment Compensation Act, General Acts 1935-, p. 950 et seq., No. 447. From a judgment below awarding appellee compensation this appeal proceeds.

This cause and that of Department of Industrial Relations v. Pesnell, Ala.App., 199 So. 720, were argued and submitted at the same hearing. The question here is whether the unemployment of appellee was directly due to the labor dispute, held to have prevailed in the Pesnell case, supra, so as to render him ineligible for compensation under the Act — as that…