Brown v. Vacuum Oil Co.

This is a suit by an employee of the defendant for compensation for an accidental injury alleged to have been received in the course of plaintiff’s employment and arising out of such employment.

The defense is that the plaintiff at the time of the accident was not performing any services arising out of and incidental to his employment, but was doing an act entirely foreign to his employment though during the period of his employment.

It is alleged that plaintiff was a member of a crew drilling a well for defendant. That in connection with the work a water hose was used to wash the mud from the…