Neville v. Adorno

In deciding whether an unauthorized deviation from the employment is so slight and not unusual as not to relieve the employer from liability, or of such a character as to constitute a temporary abandonment of the employment “the trier must take into account, not alone the mere fact of deviation, but its extent and nature relatively to time and place and circumstances, and all other detailed facts which form a part of and truly characterize the deviation, including often the real intent and purpose of the servant making it.” Ritchie v. Waller, supra, p. 165; Hickson v. Walker Co., 110 Conn.…