Court Opinion

ID: 9732460
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 16:21:49.735222+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:22:27.925523
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T. E. Brennan, C. J.
(dissenting). The claimant’s on-the-job intoxication, not his eight-year-old back injury, was the cause of his inability to give his employer a day’s work for a day’s pay. For this, he was properly discharged.
*632Under these circumstances only the most unenlightened social policy would permit the claimant to offer evidence to the effect that he had to get drunk in order to go to work.
The claim is patently unworthy of belief; and even if probable would be so obviously contrary to public policy that it should not be accepted.
I would reverse, with costs to appellant.