Lytle v. Arkansas Trucking Services

Melvin Mayfield, Judge.

Sid Lytle has appealed a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission which held that he was not acting within the course of his employment when his automobile accident occurred and therefore his claim is not compensable.

The appellant, an over-the-road truck driver, testified that he was injured on July 3, 1992, when he topped a hill on 1-20 outside Meridian, Mississippi, and came upon an accident that had already occurred. According to appellant’s testimony, he was on his way from Center, Texas, to Metamora, Illinois, to deliver a load for his employer, the…