Elam v. Insurance Company of North America

Stolz, Judge.

" 'As a general rule, a servant in going to and from his work in an automobile acts only for his own purposes and not for those of his employer, and consequently the employer is not to be held to be liable for an injury occasioned while the servant is en route to or from his work. 5 Blashfield’s Cyclopedia of Automobile Law and Practice, 196, § 3041. In this connection see Elrod v. Anchor Duck Mills, 50 Ga. App. 531, 533 (179 SE 188); U. S. Casualty Co. v. Scott, 51 Ga. App. 115 (179 SE 640); Welsh v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co., 61 Ga. App. 635 (7 SE2d 85).’ Stenger v. Mitchell,…