Wright v. Ben M. Hogan Co.

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This workmen’s compensation claim was denied by the referee, the commission, and the circuit court on the ground that the claimant’s injuries did not arise out of and in the course of his employment. Whether that finding was correct is the principal question now before us.

The ultimate controlling facts may be stated quickly, for the commission quite properly gave the claimant the benefit of the doubt upon disputed issues. Wright was employed as a concrete worker upon the Eighth Street Expressway construction job in Little Rock. He came to work in his own pickup…