Mountain v. Industrial Accident Commission

By this proceeding petitioner seeks the annulment of an order made by the respondent Industrial Accident Commission by which petitioner was denied compensation for an injury sustained by him, alleged to have arisen out of and in the course of his employment.

The evidence adduced at the hearing of the application for compensation in substance was that in the course of petitioner’s employment he was sent in an automobile on an errand of getting a suitcase for his employer; that after procuring the suitcase, instead of returning in a direct course to the appointed place of the delivery thereof,…