59 Ga. App. 521 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1939
The claim for compensation in this case, under the workmen’s compensation law, was denied by a single director of the Industrial Board, and his award was approved by the full board, and was then affirmed by the superior court. The claimant excepted. The award of the single director is as follows: “Mack Wicker sustained an accident while driving a truck on January 19, 1934, and as a result thereof died the following day. Claim was brought first by his parents as partial dependents, and then by two minor brothers. Wicker was driving a truck belonging to B. A. English, which was engaged in hauling overburden and clay for the Champion Coated Paper Company in Washington County, Georgia. After completing the day’s work he started to return to Sander-s-ville where the truck was kept for the niglit, and which was some thirteen or fourteen miles away. Fred Battle, who was on the truck with Wicker, testified that after leaving the premises of the Champion Coated Paper Company Wicker stopped the truck at the Olive Hill church and remained there for about thirty minutes, and then made a second stop at the Poplar Springs church. Wicker then proceeded towards Sandersville. Just after he reached the city limits he lost control of the truck, which jumped a ditch and
It will be seen from this award that the claim for compensation was denied solely on the ground that the deceased, Mack Wicker, had stepped aside from his employment, and that the accident causing his death did not arise out of and in the course of his employment. Was such a finding authorized by the evidence? We think it was not. The substance of the pertinent testimony is set out in the award. Mack Wicker was a truck driver, and was engaged in hauling the products of the Champion Coated Paper Company in Washington County, Georgia. The mine of this company was located 13% miles west of Sandersville. The deceased lived in Sandersville where he kept the truck at night. It appears that he hauled the products of the company from the mine to the railroad at Sandersville. He had finished his day’s work and was driv
Judgment reversed.