Casper v. State Accident Insurance Fund

This is a workmen’s compensation appeal. The question is whether claimant was within the course and scope of his employment at the time he was injured in a motorcycle-automobile collision during Ms noon hour from work on May 14, 1971. The hearing officer, Workmen’s Compensation Board and circuit court successively resolved tMs question against the claimant.

Claimant was a regular farm employe of Mr. WalcMi who was engaged in intensive diversified cropping of 450 to 500 acres of land in several fields spread over approximately a 25-mile area around the towns of Hermiston and Stanfield in…