Swanson Ex Rel. Swanson v. Fairway Foods

POPOVICH, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals reversing by majority decision the compensation judge’s determination that the employee’s death in an automobile accident on his way home from work arose out of and in the course of his employment with the employer. We affirm.

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The facts in this case are basically undisputed. Melvin Swanson began working for Fairway Foods on February 2, 1984 as a part-time “order filler” at the employer’s *723warehouse in Northfield, Minnesota. This job required Swanson to locate ordered cases of food items in…