Woodmansee v. Frank Lyon Co.

Appellant, Richard E. Woodmansee, has appealed from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission, affirmed by the circuit court, disallowing compensation under the Arkansas Workmen’s Compensation laws for an injury which he received while on a duck hunting trip, which injury, appellant contends, arose out of and was in the scope of his employment.

Appellant is the vice president of the Frank Lyon Company, a corporation, and since 1943 has been the manager of its furniture department. Although the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company was made a party defendant, the Frank Lyon Company was…