Bryan v. Best Western/Coachman's Inn

Appellant-employee Terry Bryan was involved in a quarrel with the desk clerk at the motel where they were employed. The dispute was over a purely personal matter, unconnected with their work. The desk clerk’s boyfriend took offense at some of the things Bryan said to the desk clerk and confronted Bryan at the motel. The confrontation resulted in a fight and Bryan was injured. The majority holds that even though the Commission could find, as it did, that the altercation in which appellant was injured was personal in nature, the Commission’s further finding that it “did not relate to…