Mathias v. Sellers

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a walkway near the entrance of a multi-tenant commercial building constituted part of the employer’s premises
• entranceway to lessor's building that was a means of ingress and egress to employer's shop
• claimant’s fall using a less direct entrance to employer’s store to start work was in the course of employment where employer permitted employees to use any of three entrances
• claimant manager/salesperson of hosiery and lingerie shop found to have acted “in the course of employment” although injury occurred between 15 and 30 minutes before shift was to begin, where she was about to enter and had been about to prepare to open shop
• The court held that the employee’s injury occurred in the course and scope of her employment when she was injured on her way to work when she slipped on an icy floor. The accident occurred one-half hour before her work period began and the court found this was within a reasonable time.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).