Douglas v. Spartan Mills, Startex Division

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• holding that an injury sustained during travel to a workers' compensation hearing was not compensa-ble because, among other reasons, the travel was for personal benefit
• holding that an injury sustained during travel to a workers' compensation hearing was not compensable because, among other reasons, the travel was for personal benefit
• holding “an injury which cannot fairly be traced to the employment as a contributing proximate cause and which comes from a hazard to which [one] would have been equally exposed apart from the employment” cannot be said to arise out of the claimant’s employment
• holding \an injury which cannot fairly be traced to the employment as a contributing proximate cause and which comes from a hazard to which [one] would have been equally exposed apart from the employment\ cannot be said to arise out of the claimant's employment
• claimant’s injury in.automobile accident en route to Industrial Commission hearing was in the course of direct, not quasi-employment
• “[The causative danger] need not have been foreseen or expected, but after the event it must appear to have had its origin in a risk connected with the employment, and to have flowed from that source as a rational consequence.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).