Horan's Case

The employee worked on the grounds at the Boston City Hospital. On the morning of July 2,1959, a misty, rainy day, he left his home in apparently normal physical condition and rode with a fellow employee to a parking lot on the hospital grounds arriving there between 6:20 and 6:25 a.m. While his employment hours were from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. he customarily rode to work with another hospital worker whose duties commenced at 6:30 a.m. He was not wearing rain clothes and while “running to get out of the rain” was seized with a heart attack. He expired at 7:25 a.m. A single member of the Industrial…