Hill v. TERRAZZO MACHINE & SUPPLY COMPANY

I cannot agree that the compensation act was intended to confer benefits on an employee whose injury did not occur in the course of his employment nor while he was engaged in any personal mission permitted by the terms of his employment agreement. As I read the cases, we have ruled squarely the other way in a line of decisions commencing with Callaghan v. Brown, 218 Minn. 440, 16 N. W. (2d) 317, up to and including Mills v. Standard Parts Serv. Co. 269 Minn. 501, 131 N. W. (2d) 546.

When this employee left the premises prior to the time his work began, his only purpose was to deposit in the…