Douglas v. Spartan Mills, Startex Division

Bussey, Justice.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case in which the sole issue is stated by appellants in the following language:

“Did the claimant-respondent sustain an injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment when he ran into a bridge abutment, due to a faulty mechanism on his personal automobile, while traveling to an Industrial Commission hearing on his disputed claim for additional benefits because of a prior injury?”

The appellants’ statement of the issue is not challenged by the respondent.

The hearing Commissioner, a majority of the full Commission (with two…