Oakes v. Oxygen Therapy Services

NEELY, Justice:

The appellant, Ronald Oakes, was employed by Oxygen Therapy at its Hagers- town, Maryland office in January, 1982. The appellant’s duties were to pick up and deliver oxygen tanks in an area that included parts of Maryland and West Virginia. When the appellant was hired in Maryland, he signed an employment contract which provided that Maryland law would govern the contract.

In December, 1983 the appellant was injured in Maryland when he fell while delivering an oxygen tank. Appellant is a resident of West Virginia and after his accident he was hospitalized in Martinsburg, West…