Mapp v. Maryland Casualty Corp.

OPINION

BURGESS, Justice.

Clara Mapp worked for Reinauer Real Estate as an assistant manager. Her duties included displaying and renting apartment units at two different apartment complexes. She worked primarily in Port Arthur, Texas, but also worked in Orange, Texas one or two days per week. In March 1983, Mrs. Mapp was instructed to go to the Orange complex and relieve the manager there. She reported for work and performed her ordinary tasks. When the noon hour came, Mrs. Mapp turned on the telephone answering machine, locked the office and left the apartment premises for lunch. She went to a…