Barkman v. Meyer

John Barkman had been employed for five years or more as a dairyman on the appellant’s farm in Chester; he worked from half past four in the morning to five- or six o’clock in the afternoon. Each morning at seven o’clock, after milking cows and doing farm work, he went for breakfast to his home about half a mile beyond the appellant’s-property; sometimes he rode home on the truck of his employer, and sometimes he walked home along the public road. Each morning he took home with him as part of his employment, two or three regular dairy pails to be washed and cleaned at his home, which pails…