Opinion
November 22, 1967
Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board which disqualified claimant-appellant from receiving unemployment insurance benefits effective April 24, 1966 for voluntarily leaving his employment to follow his wife to another locality. Under the circumstances there was no compelling medical reason for claimant's move to New York City sufficient to avoid the clear intent of statutory disqualification. There is substantial evidence in the record to support the board's determination that the claimant voluntarily left his employment to follow his spouse to another locality. (Labor Law, § 593, subd. 1, par. [b]; § 623; Matter of Ost [ Catherwood], 26 A.D.2d 979; Matter of Sanchez [ Catherwood], 27 A.D.2d 678.) Decision affirmed, without costs. Gibson, P.J., Herlihy, Reynolds, Aulisi and Staley, Jr., JJ., concur in memorandum by STALEY, JR., J.