Breckenridge v. Bray Lines

SIMMS, Justice:

Claimant in this workers’ compensation case was employed as an interstate truck driver for Bray Lines. On the incident in issue, he was assigned to take cargo from Los Angeles, California to Kenner, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. Since its drivers were paid by the mile, the employer expected and directed its drivers to take the shortest, most direct route to their destination. The shortest route, in this ease, would have been across the southern portions of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, through Houston and up to New Orleans. At Las Cruces, New Mexico, however, claimant…