Williams v. State

The plaintiff is an employee of the state labor department at its New Haven office. On August 16, 1962, she drove her automobile to a picnic area in East Hartford where a labor union which represents some of the employees in the department was holding a picnic for employees of the department, their families and friends. In walking from the automobile parking space to the main gate of the picnic area, the plaintiff stepped into a hole in the ground and fell, injuring her right arm. The commissioner found that the injury arose out of and in the course of her employment for the labor department.…