Beckerman v. Owosso Mfg. Co.

Beckerman had worked for Owosso for fourteen years. Some of the employees customarily drive away for lunch. They have done that for a long time. Within not over three or four minutes after Beckerman punched his time card going out for lunch, he was killed. He habitually ate his lunch at Prewitt’s cafe, three or four blocks from the plant.

The crossing where Beckerman was killed is in such close proximity to the log pile where he worked that for all practical purposes he was on the employer’s property at the time of the accident. He was only 20 or 30 feet from the place where he had piled the…