Lanier v. Brown Bros.

1. Although an employee may receive an injury while engaged in the performance of the duties of his- employment, the injury, under the expressed terms of section 2 (d) of the workmen’s compensation act as amended (Ga. L. 1920 p. 167 and Ga. L. 1922 p. 185), is not compensable where it was “caused by the wilful act of [a] third person directed against the employee for reasons personal to such employee.”

2. Where an employee whose duty it is to drive a truck has been called aside by his employer, and, while engaged with the latter in conversation, becomes involved in a personal quarrel with a…