...Employment Course of Employment, Misconduct—continued. Course of employment—Misconduct.—Held that a labourer who was killed while passing from...misconduct on his part in crossing the rails between two wagons which were standing apart in a siding (in ignorance that shunting was going on) with the view...

...costs. He, however, held that the evidence failed to establish that the defendant Tate was engaged in the course of his employment at the time of the accident, and he therefore dismissed the action as against the defendant Denton. From this portion of the judgment...

...Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, advancing two reasons for its conclusion: (1) Armistead was not acting in the course of his employment at the time of the accident; and (2) even if he had been, recovery was barred by § 3 (a) of the Act making compensation payable "only...

...Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, advancing two reasons for its conclusion: (1) Armistead was not acting in the course of his employment at the time of the accident; and (2) even if he had been, recovery was barred by § 3 (a) of the Act making compensation payable "only...

...work, rode in an automobile instead of the train as ordinarily, and was injured, it was held that he was in the course of his employment at the time of the accident, and that the accident arose out of his employment. In Smith v. Hamilton (1923) 231 Hl. App. 482, where...