MacK v. Reo Motors, Inc.

Due proceedings under the workmen’s compensation act resulted in an award for plaintiff and application by defendants for review by certiorari. The application having been granted — quite improvidently in my view — we are confronted with question whether the compensation commission exceeded its authority by holding that the plaintiff employee’s accidental injury, sustained by her on the defendant employer’s premises during noon intermission, is compensable. The facts are typical of employee intermission eases, as will presently appear.

January 1, 1956, the writer became an associate member of…