Maryland Casualty Co. v. Jenkins

Shulman, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The deceased, an agent for Delta Life Insurance Company, was employed to sell insurance and collect a debit over a fixed route and in the surrounding rural area. Evidence showed that such agents collected premiums and then canvassed to sell insurance; that work was frequently done at night and, in fact, occasionally seven days a week. There was testimony that on the day of his death the deceased had agreed to return to the home of a prospective policy purchaser that night. The prospect was the deceased’s uncle and lived on the route…