Adams v. STATE COMPENSATION DEPARTMENT

(Pro Tempore).

The transcript of evidence from the administrative hearing discloses plaintiff’s husband was a mechanic who kept his ranch employer’s equipment in repair. On a Saturday afternoon, after usual ranch repair work ceased, he proceeded to replace a broken spring on his personal vehicle, using ranch tools, in the ranch shop yard. His employer offered to help, but he declined the offer. While he was working alone, the vehicle fell from the jacks and killed him.

He occasionally used this vehicle in traveling to a part of the operation some 15 to 20 miles removed where the roads were…