Claim of Tiernan v. Potter

Appeal by employer and his insurance carrier from an award made by Workmen’s Compensation Board in favor of the claimant. Claimant was a nurse-secretary in a doctor’s office. She was injured at night on her way to her home at Harrison, iSL Y., from the office at White Plains, N. Y. After alighting from the bus at Harrison, and prior to her injury, she had purchased groceries for herself and her mother and postage stamps at the post office for her employer. Appellants contend that her accident did not arise out of and in the course of her employment. There was evidence that it was at the…