Dawson v. a & H MFG. CO.

BEYILACQUA, Chief Justice with whom KELLEHER, Justice, joins,

dissenting.

The facts briefly summarized are not in dispute. The employee was employed as a stock boy. Before lunch time, he left his workplace to get a cup of coffee, which break was authorized. While later returning to eat his lunch, he was stung by a bee. The majority sustained the commission’s holding that there was no evidence establishing a causal connection between the employment and the injury.

The sole question presented is whether the employer is in a better position to bear the loss in a case in which an employee is injured…