Employers' Liability Assurance Corp. v. Industrial Accident Commission

Certiorari to review an award of the Industrial Accident Commission made in favor of the widow of a deceased employee. The facts are as follows: One Henry T. Godwin was in the employ of F. Dohrmann, Jr., as a chauffeur. On the evening of December 3, 1931, he had taken his employer and a number of guests to the theater. After the performance he drove them back to his employer’s home. He had then finished his work for the day and he proceeded to his own home in a distant part of the city in his own automobile, which he had left at his employer’s residence for that purpose. When the employee…