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The Commonwealth Court affirmed the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review's denial of benefits, holding that the claimant's refusal to drive a truck unless repaired by a different garage constituted willful misconduct under Section 402(e).
Appeal from the Common Pleas of Lebanon county. This was a proceeding in equity, founded on a bill filed January 4th 1862, by David Steinmetz and Henry Landis, administrators of Jacob Becker, deceased, against Jonathan Bender, sheriff of Lebanon county, and Jacob Witmer and other creditors of Henry Thoma, and against the said Henry Thoma. The bill set forth that Henry Thoma is the owner in foe of a tract of land of about forty acres, situate in Union township, Lebanon county, with a steam grist and saw mill thereon erected . — that there are liens upon said property, as follows, viz.: a dower of about $500 in favour of the widow of Abraham Wenger, deceased, being the first -lien upon said property, and two judgments in favour of complainants, administrators as aforesaid, for $5000, which are the next liens, that said property, being all the real estate of Henry Thoma, is not worth and would not bring so much as the amount of said liens with their interest, that Jacob Witmer and other execution-creditors are the owners of judgments against said Henry Thoma, the liens of which are subsequent to the dower and judgments in favour of complainants as aforesaid, that said Henry Thoma has no personal estate, the same having been levied upon and sold, and is wholly insolvent. That said steam grist and saw mill contained a steam engine, boilers, and other machinery necessarily connected and used together, essential to the working of the mills, and so annexed, fixed, and embedded in the structure of said mills as to be part of the freehold; that said Henry Thoma, acting in concert and collusion with Jacob Witmer and the other execution-creditors, defendants, and by their advice and instigation, and with intent to appropriate the real estate, the proper fund of your petitioners, administrators as aforesaid, for the payment of their judgments to the payment of the judgments of the said Jacob Witmer and other execution-creditors, which otherwise would not he paid
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