Lycoming Shoe Co. v. Woods

REED, Judge.

The issue posed on this appeal is whether the circuit court erred when it reversed a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board that denied compensation benefits to the widow of an employee who was killed in an automobile accident. The board held that the employee’s death did not “arise out of and in the course of” his employment. The circuit court held that the undisputed facts established, as a matter of law, that the accident in which the employee was killed arose out of and in the course of his employment. The employer has appealed the circuit court’s disposition to this…