Goodyear Aircraft Corp. v. Industrial Commission

Respondent Laws was employed by the petitioner as a guard at one of its warehouses in Phoenix. His hours of employment were from 3 p. m. to 11 p. m., with no time off for lunch. His instructions were to bring his lunch and eat it on the premises. He was credited with 8% hours per day, the additional half hour being allowed which would ordinarily have been consumed if he had eaten off the premises. He had been in the employ of the petitioner for nine months.

On August 24, 1944, Laws drove to the warehouse shortly before 3 o ’clock. He left his lunch, including a bottle of Royal Crown Cola, on…