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· 9/24/1968

U.S. Industries v. Industrial Commission

Citations

  • 240 N.E.2d 637
  • 40 Ill. 2d 469
  • 1968 Ill. LEXIS 405

How courts have described this case

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  • applying the traveling employee analysis, but denying compensation on the basis that employee’s midnight pleasure drive in unfamiliar, mountainous terrain was not reasonably expected by employer
  • traveling repairman who, while on an assignment, went to a motel room, consumed several drinks, and then went for midnight drive in the mountains did not engage in reasonable and foreseeable activity
  • employee injured on midnight pleasure drive in unfamiliar, mountainous terrain was engaged in unreasonable activity
  • employee injured on midnight pleasure drive in unfamiliar, mountainous terrain was engaged in unreasonable activity

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Judges: Underwood

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