Askren v. Industrial Commission

CROCKETT, Justice:

Betty Askren seeks reversal of an order of the Industrial Commission denying her workmen’s compensation for an injury to her back resulting from a fall in the cafeteria maintained on company premises. This proceeding challenges the ruling of the Commission that the injury did not: “arise out of or in the course of” her employment.1

Plaintiff was employed by Sperry Rand’s Engineering laboratory at Clearfield Naval Base. In the building where she worked, Clark, Inc. operated a cafeteria under contract with Sperry. By it Sperry agreed: to furnish without charge the space for the…