Sims v. INDUSTRIAL COM'N OF COLO.

HODGES, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari in these cases to review decisions of the court of appeals affirming the Industrial Commission’s reduced award of unemployment benefits to claimants Sims and Albaitis. Both cases raise the same issue, and were therefore consolidated by this court for oral argument and decision. We reverse the judgment in Sims v. Industrial Commission (Court of Appeals No. 79CA0644, announced February 7, 1980 (Not Selected for Official Publication)), and affirm the judgment of the court of appeals in Albaitis v. Industrial Commission, Colo.App., 609 P.2d 1118 (1980).

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