Vaughan's Landscaping & Maintenance v. Dodson

SENIOR JUSTICE WHITING

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this workers’ compensation case, we consider whether the worker’s injuries arose out of and in the course of his employment.

The following evidence was presented by the worker and his employer at a hearing before a deputy commissioner of the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission (the Commission). Timothy Jason Dodson (Dodson), a manual laborer who was 19 years old at the time of his injuries, worked for David Vaughan, the owner of Vaughan’s Landscaping & Maintenance (Vaughan). Dodson, a passenger in the employer’s pickup truck,…