Claim of Bodensky v. Royaltone, Inc.

Appeal by employer and carrier from an award. From uneontradieted evidence it appeared that the employer permitted its employees to take a coffee break for a 15-minute period each day. They were not forbidden to leave the premises and claimant’s practice of going from the building was known to her supervisor. During such a period claimant went to a coffee shop about a block away and on returning was injured when about 25 feet from the employer’s building. Appellants contend that the accident did not arise out of and in the course of the employment, and would liken the ease to that of an…