Dent v. Ford Motor Co.

The pivotal question in this case is whether plaintiff suffered an injury arising out of and in the course of his employment. He was employed in defendant’s power house and, October 15, 1929, having finished work for the day, checked out and started for his home, leaving defendant’s premises by way of a gate opening on a public street and, while in the street, a few feet from the gate, in crossing a railroad track, slipped on one of the rails and was injured.

A deputy commissioner found: “no accident which arose out of and in the course of employment.” Upon appeal the department found to the…