United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Croft

Counsel for the employer in an excellent brief gives a logical analysis of the questions for decision: 1. Did the death of the employee occur at a place where the employee reasonably may have been in the performance of his duties? 2. Did it occur while he was fulfilling his duties or while he was engaged in doing something incidental thereto, reasonably necessary in the performance of his duties? 3. Was his employment a contributing proximate cause of his death?

This is but another way of saying that in order for the de- ' ceased’s death to be compensable it must have been the proximate result…