Employers' Casualty Co. v. Bratcher

OPINION

OSBORN, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a summary judgment awarding workers’ compensation benefits for the death of a toolpusher based upon the personal convenience doctrine. We reverse and render.

Facts

Stacy Lee Bratcher was employed as a toolpusher for Cherokee Drilling & Development Corporation. On the day he died, he drove to Midland to buy supplies for a drilling rig and went by the Cherokee offices. He returned to the drilling site before noon and told a member of the crew that he had not slept much the past few days and that he was going to the drilling company house trailer…