Hackfeld v. Pacific Employers Insurance Co.

MURRAY, Chief Justice.

The heirs of James Klare and Bobby Joe Rokohl brought this suit against Pacific Employers Insurance Co., to recover benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. Klare and Rokohl were members of a drilling crew and were returning from a tour of duty, riding in an automobile belonging to one of their fellow crew members upon a public highway, when an accident occurred and they were fatally injured.

On the morning of September 20, 1963, Klare and Rokohl each had driven his own car to the home of Ray Hilmer, the driller of the crew, and had then gotten into a car owned by a…