Associated Employers' Reciprocal v. State Industrial Commission

Citations

• 200 P. 174
• 82 Okla. 229

Syllabus

<p>(Syllabus.)</p> <p>1. Master and Servant — Workmen’s Compensation Act — Injuries Arising in “Course of Employment.”</p> <p>An employe injured in attempt to extinguish a fire which, had accidentally developed in the lease where the employe was working in drawing rods from a well, was injured in the “course of his employment” within the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act.</p> <p>2. Same — Act in the “Course of His Employment.”</p> <p>An employe does not cease to be in the course of his employment merely because he is not actually engaged in doing some specifically prescribed task, if in the course of his' employment he does some act which he deems necessary for the 'benefit or interest of his employer.</p>