Bignell v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

The petitioner, Frederick A. Bignell, has appealed an April 30, 1978 decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review denying him benefits on the basis that his discharge was a result of his own willful misconduct.1

*570The petitioner was formerly employed as an engineer by Emporium Specialities, Inc. (employer) until his discharge on April 25, 1978. His employer charged him with copying and removing from the premises blueprints of the employer’s machines, and for taking sixty to eighty photographs of patented equipment located in the employer’s plant, all without…