R. C. A. Service Co. v. Liggett

AREND, Justice.

This is an appeal by the employer, R.C.A. Service Company, and its insurance carrier from a decision of the superior court affirming an award.of compensation by the Alaska Workmen’s Compensation Board to the dependents of Fred Liggett, who was killed in a plane crash on the way home to Fairbanks from his jobsite at Clear, Alaska. The Board had based the award upon a legal conclusion that the decedent’s death arose out of and in the course of his employment with R.C.A., because at the time of the crash he. was returning from a special errand made on behalf of the employer.…