Kerr v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

OGG, Presiding Judge.

This appeal from a denial of compensation by the Industrial Commission focuses upon the “going and coming rule.”

Appellant Stanley L. Kerr was employed by Sage Communications, Inc., as a lineman and foreman. Sage laid communication cable primarily in California and Arizona; the nature of the work necessitated travel by its employees. Mr. Kerr resided with his family in Las Vegas, Nevada. The job which gave rise to this case was in Show Low, Arizona, approximately 400 miles from Las Vegas.

The workers at the Show Low project worked an eighty-hour shift and then were…