Holland v. Westmar, Inc.

T1 The question presented for decision is whether a weekend trip home to Oklahoma by four Westmar employees from a Texas job site was travel incidental to employment, or a personal mission that Westmar merely accommodated by allowing them to use a company truck. The workers' compensation trial court ruled that the trip home was a personal mission that Westmar had accommodated. The trial court denied the claims of two Westmar employees who were injured in Oklahoma when the company truck in which they were traveling was rear-ended. One of the claims was tried first and the record from that case…