Tavel v. Bechtel Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• claimant “injured on a public highway while driving in his own car from his home to his place of employment”
• “where the essential terms and manner of employment are undisputed, the question is one of law for the court”
• where contractually provided “travel expenses” bore no relationship to actu al expenses, case did not come within free transportation exception
• although compensation included travel time, benefits were denied where additional payment bore no relation to actual expense, but was merely inducement to get employees to work at certain plant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).