Butler v. Director of Labor

Melvin Mayfield, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of unemployment benefits.

The appellant was employed as a machine operator by Borg-Warner Corporation in Blytheville, Arkansas. On October 8, 1979, her foreman noticed appellant’s arms were swollen and took her off the job telling her to go see a doctor. The next day she went to see her doctor in Kennett, Missouri, where she resided. Kennett is about thirty miles from Blytheville.

After treating appellant for several weeks, the doctor referred her to a neurosurgeon who subsequently hospitalized her. She was in Methodist Hospital in…