Woods v. Jacob Dold Packing Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was a compensation case. It appears that on and prior to October 24, 1933, the late Samuel Ernest Woods, of Clovis, N. M., was a traveling salesman for the Jacob Dold Packing Company of Wichita, Kan. His contract of employment was made in Kansas, although his field of operations was partly in northwest Texas, and included the cities of Amarillo and Dalhart. His compensation included an allowance for traveling expenses, which was calculated on the exact mileage by the most direct-route between points within the trade territory to which…