Long v. Asphalt Paving Co. of Greensboro

WELLS, Judge.

The principal issue which defendants raise on appeal is whether there was sufficient competent evidence to support the Full Commission’s findings of fact and conclusion that the decedent was on a business trip to Florida in connection with his duties as an employee of defendant Asphalt Paving Company at the time of the accident and that the decedent suffered a fatal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. Pursuant to G.S. 97-2 (6), a compensable injury under the North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Act must be one “arising out of and in the course…