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· 2/19/1872

Philadelphia & Baltimore Central Railroad Company's Appeal

Citations

  • 70 Pa. 355
  • 1872 Pa. LEXIS 49

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that incident predating termination by 25 days could not form basis of willful misconduct
  • conduct or an incident at work that is temporally remote from a claimant’s termination cannot serve as a basis for denial of benefits due to willful misconduct
  • the Board may not rely on reasons for discharge that were not considered by the employer
  • “An incident of willful misconduct cannot be so temporally remote from the ultimate dismissal and still be the basis for a denial of benefits.”
  • “An incident of willful misconduct cannot be temporally remote from the ultimate dismissal and still be the basis for a denial of benefits.”
  • 25 days between incident and termination too remote to support denial of benefits

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Judges: Agnew, Prius, Sharswood, Thompson, Williams

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