J. D. Dutton, Inc. v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

SCHROEDER, Presiding Judge.

The question presented in this special action—Industrial Commission is whether the respondent-employee, Raymond W. Dyer, was in the course and scope of his employment when he was injured in an automobile accident while returning home from work.

Dyer was employed by the petitioner-employer, J. D. Dutton, Inc., as a grade foreman on a highway construction project near Greasewood, Arizona. At the time of the accident, Dyer lived approximately 45 miles from the job site in Holbrook, Arizona. Dyer had been working at the construction site for seven weeks and, on…