Fisher v. Proksch

Melvin Mayfield, Judge.

This is an appeal from the Workers’ Compensation Commission. The claimant was injured in an automobile accident on his way to work while employed by appellant, John Dale Fisher, who was in the business of hanging and finishing sheetrock, under the name of Dale’s Dry Wall and Paint Company. Appellant’s principal place of business and the claimant’s home were in Ashdown, Arkansas, but at the time of the accident the job site was Mt. Pleasant, Texas, some eighty to ninety miles from Ashdown. The appellant testified that his payroll on this job began at 7:30 a.m., even…