Sumner v. Meier's Ready Mix, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that substantial evidence supported conclusion that employee was acting outside the scope of employment where accident occurred in company vehicle but while the worker was on a purely personal errand
• court has recognized “[r]epeatedly . . . that resolution of the question of whether an injury arises out of and in the course of employment is a question of fact”
• “Additionally, when an employee takes a clearly identifiable side-trip, thereby deviating from the business route, the employee steps beyond the course of employment and toward his or her personal objective.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).