Claim of Sullivan v. L'Heureux

Decedent, employed on a poultry farm as a farmhand, handyman and carpenter, was killed at about 7:00 p.m. on a July evening when the farm station wagon operated by him left the highway after he had made a delivery of eggs from the farm to a local inn, had performed certain personal errands and had then resumed the direct route back to the farm, the accident occurring, in fact, when he was nearly there. There was ample proof that decedent customarily, as often as three times a week, delivered eggs to the inn after his work on the farm itself had ended at 5 :00 p.m., sometimes using the farm…