Travelers Insurance Company v. Mimbs

Pannell, Judge.

Where an employee, during her lunch hour, goes to a lounge on the premises provided by the employer where lunches can be eaten but to which employees are not required to go, they being free to have their lunch where they please, and the employee is not paid during the hour taken for lunch, and the employee, after eating lunch, washes her hands in restroom facilities adjacent to the lounge, returns to the lounge to sit in a chair where she intended to smoke a cigarette, and the chair slipped out from under her, resulting in the alleged injury, the Board of Workmen’s Compensation…