Everett Ford Co. v. Laney, 35139
| Decision Date | 13 July 1966 |
| Docket Number | No. 35139,35139 |
| Citation | 189 So.2d 877 |
| Parties | EVERETT FORD COMPANY et al., Petitioners, v. Julia Marie LANEY et al., Respondents. |
| Court | Florida Supreme Court |
Robert D. Canada, of Hall, Hartwell, Hall & Canada, Tallahassee, for petitioners.
William H. Clark, of Harrell, Caro, Middlebrooks & Wiltshire, Pensacola, Patrick H. Mears, Tallahassee, and J. Franklin Garner, Lakeland, for respondents.
The commission has affirmed an award of compensation for injuries to the claimant Laney in an accident suffered by her while driving her automobile.
The material uncontroverted facts are that claimant's employment, involving book-keeping that claimant's employment, involving bookkeeping irregular hours, for which reason she was furnished an office key. On the afternoon of the accident she was away from the office for a period of hours on a purely personal shopping mission, and had agreed to complete her work later in the day or evening. Upon returning in the late afternoon after office hours, she discovered while still in her car that she had forgotten her office key. She started driving home to get it and the collision occurred en route.
The order on the point in question is that The commission's affirmance cites Bowen v. Keen, 1944, 154 Fla. 161, 17 So.2d 706. The claimant's employment in that case involved many duties away from the employer's place of employment, and at the time of his injury he was en route from his home upon specific assignment to pick up his employer's truck before regular working hours. We think the single circumstance of irregular work hours is obviously insufficient to bring the claimant in this case within the rule in Bowen, the rationale of which is succinctly stated at page 709 of the opinion:
(Quoting Voehl v. Ind. Ins. Co., 288 U.S. 162, 53 S.Ct. 380, 77 L.Ed. 676, 87...
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