McCown v. Quigley
Citations
- 147 Pa. 307
- 23 A. 805
- 1892 Pa. LEXIS 837
Syllabus
<p>Wrongful taking of goods — Damages—Sighest value in kind.</p> <p>Where a person who has been in the habit of purchasing goods from another, appropriates goods which he does not account for, and by his own wrongdoing, prevents the owner from accurately estimating the value of the goods taken, the highest value in kind may be charged against him, and the burden is upon him to show what it was that he actually took.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- holding that off-duty conduct that included a shooting in a domestic dispute was not disqualifying because it did not reflect on the claimant’s ability to do his job
- explaining why it is necessary that a claimant’s job “requires [a] special degree of trust on the part of the employer” in order to hold the off-duty misconduct disqualifying
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Judges: Green, Heydrick, McCollum, Mitchell, Paxson, Sterrbtt, Williams
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