Fidelity C. Co. of New York v. Barden

We think that the board was authorized to find that the death of the employee resulted from an accident which arose in the course of and out of the employment. The employer’s place of business was one to which the public was invited, whether to do business or not. The boy possessing the pistol, after having been upon the premises and having departed, was invited back by a coemployee of the deceased in connection with a transaction purely personal to himself. This fact, however, did not render the transaction one purely personal to the deceased. Such an invitation was certainly one to be…