Leonard Van Stelle, Inc. v. Industrial Accident Commission

This case involves the single question of whether applicant for workmen’s compensation, a real estate saleswoman, was, at the occasion of her injury, pursuant to the requirements of Labor Code section 3600, “performing service growing out of and incidental to [her] employment.” We shall point out that when applicant undertook a trip for the purpose of inspecting a piece of property for the real estate agency by which she was employed she assumed the status of a ‘ ‘ commercial traveler ’ ’; the injury which she suffered while seeking dinner upon her return journey occurred within the statutory…