Case Name: Scruggs Unemployment Compensation Case
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1961-12-14
Citations: 196 Pa. Super. 562
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 251
Parties: Scruggs Unemployment Compensation Case.
Judges: Before Ervin, Wright, Woodside, Watkins, Montgomery, and Flood, JJ. (Rhodes, P. J., absent).
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 196
Pages: 562–563

Head Matter:
Scruggs Unemployment Compensation Case.
Argued November 15, 1961.
Before Ervin, Wright, Woodside, Watkins, Montgomery, and Flood, JJ. (Rhodes, P. J., absent).
Harriette Scruggs, appellant, in propria persona, submitted a brief.
Sydney Reuben, Assistant Attorney General, with him David Stahl, Attorney General, for Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, appellee.
December 14, 1961:

Opinion:
Opinion by
Watkins, J.,
This is an unemployment compensation ease in which the Bureau of Employment Security disqualified the claimant for benefits in that she voluntarily terminated her employment to join her husband in Ohio, under the provisions of §402(b) (2) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, 43 PS §802(b) (2).
The clamant, Harriette Scruggs, was last employed by Thorofare Markets, Inc., Murraysville, Pennsylvania, on August 27, 1960. Notice of the above determination was mailed to the claimant on November 2, 1960. The claimant filed her appeal on January 23, 1961. The referee allowed the appeal, although it was not filed within the statutory period because the claimant had been misled by a local office representative. The record doesn't support this finding of the referee but it is moot because although he allowed the appeal, he sustained the Bureau by holding that she voluntarily left her employment.
A copy of the referee's decision, dated March 24, 1961, was mailed to the last known address of the claimant, 8301 Burns Avenue, Cincinnati 16, Ohio, and she received it. The decision became final on April 3, 1961. She filed her appeal on May 2, 1961.
Her appeal was filed beyond the statutory period so the Board properly dismissed it. Silvio Unemployment Compensation Case, 191 Pa. Superior Ct. 211, 156 A. 2d 353.
Decision affirmed.