Lunde v. Congoleum-Nairn, Inc.

Stone, Justice.

Relator is the widow of Elmer Lunde, whom death overtook on the evening of June 28, 1940. Mr. Lunde was then a traveling salesman employed by respondent Congoleum-Nairn, Incorporated. His territory did not include St. Paul or Minneapolis or any part of either. His home and business headquarters were in Fargo, North Dakota. On the day fatal to him he was in Minneapolis attending a sales conference. That function completed, he made contact early in the evening with Mr. Foster, an agent of the Aetna Insurance Company, ivhose home and headquarters were in Minneapolis. Pursuant to a…