Pate v. Plymouth Mfg. Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Acting Associate Justice L. D. Lide.

Eugene Pate, the appellant above named, was a regular employee of Plymouth Manufacturing Company at its mill plant at McColl, in Marlboro County, as a doffer. He was injured on July 29, 1940, in an automobile collision a number of miles from the mill property, while returning from a baseball game, in which presumably he had participated, and claimed compensation for such injury under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, alleging that it was “the- result of an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment…