Employers Liability Assurance Corp. v. Pruitt

This is a workmen’s compensation case. George W. Pruitt was employed by the International Correspondence Schools, insured under the Georgia workmen’s compensation act by the Employers Liability Assurance Corporation. His regular ■salary was $18 per week and this was supplemented by $10 per week to cover meals, room, and other traveling expenses, making a total of $38 per week. It appears that the employer sold correspondence courses, and that Pruitt was a traveling salesman in the railroad department; that is, he specialized in selling courses to railroad employees, looked up his own…