Watson v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

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• a \special employment errand normally arises `[w]hen any person in authority directs an employee to run some private errand or do some work outside his normal duties'\
• a “special employment errand normally arises ‘[w]hen any person in authority directs an employee to run some private errand or do some work outside his normal duties’ ”
• ordinary perils of travel between home and work not considered hazards of employment; thus, injuries arising from such travel are noncompensable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).