Erickson v. Erickson Company

Peterson, Justice.

The decision of the industrial commission denying the employe compensation found all the facts in his favor except the one whether the accidental injury arose out of and in the course of his employment, and on that issue the finding was against him. Decision of that question depended on whether or not the travel in which he was engaged at the time of injury was for a business purpose of the employer or for a purely personal purpose of the employe.

The employer is an architectural and engineering company with its principal office in Duluth. During the summer of 1939 it had…