Industrial Commission v. Hunter

The defendants in error were claimants under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, as dependents upon William Hunter, deceased, who was at the time of his death, a water commissioner residing at Rye, Colorado. He was killed while riding in an automobile from his home to Pueblo in company with one Parks. The circumstances of the killing are recited in Industrial Commission v. Pueblo Co., 71 Colo. 424, 207 Pac. 479. The commission found that the killing did not arise out of his employment, though he was at the time acting in the course of his employment. The district court of Pueblo county held that,…