United States Casualty Co. v. Superior Hardware Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Douglas county: Solon L. Perrin, Judge. One Louis Stern, a city salesman of the Eimon Mercantile Company of Superior, Wisconsin, was injured by an automobile truck. Upon due proceedings had before the industrial commission the amount of compensation and medical expenses under the workmen’s compensation act was determined to be $3,144.92. Such sum was paid on behalf of the employer by this plaintiff, its insurer.
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Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Douglas county: Solon L. Perrin, Judge. One Louis Stern, a city salesman of the Eimon Mercantile Company of Superior, Wisconsin, was injured by an automobile truck. Upon due proceedings had before the industrial commission the amount of compensation and medical expenses under the workmen’s compensation act was determined to be $3,144.92. Such sum was paid on behalf of the employer by this plaintiff, its insurer. Suit was thereupon brought by the plaintiff as succeeding to all the rights of the injured person against the defendant on account of…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
Mr. Stern’s duty did not require him to go first to his employer’s place of business before starting out to make the rounds of his customers in the city, and he had no other present objective in view while crossing Broadway and Ogden avenue at the time of the accident than the visit to his prospective first customer, whose place of business was on Broadway about a half a block west of the place of accident.
To entitle him to compensation from his employer under the provisions of sub. (2), sec. 2394 — 3, it must be shown that at the time of the accident “the employee is performing service…
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