Karlslyst v. Industrial Commission

Kenneth Wikum and a fellow employee were sent by J. S. Karlslyst, their employer, from Stoughton to Jewett, Wisconsin, in a Mack semitrailer truck to get some equipment for their employer and bring it back to Stoughton. The two men took turns at driving the truck. On January 27, 1942, at about 2 o’clock in the afternoon, while his fellow employee was driving on United States Highway 12, about half a mile to a mile past Baldwin, Kenneth Wikum left the seat of the truck and stood on the right running board intending to urinate. The truck was moving at about twenty-five to thirty miles an hour.…