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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

INDUST. COMM. v. DAVISON.
    Ohio Supreme Court.
    No. 20580.
    Decided March 14, 1928.
    Error to Seneca Appeals.
    Judgment affirmed.
    456. EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYE — 1283. workmen’s Compensation.
    1. Fact that regular employe is injured in course of employment both with regular employer and in course of casual employment with another employer with consent of regular employer, no bar to recovery from state insurance fund.
    2. Employe is in course of employment when he is performing obligation of contract.
    3. Accident incident to result of act done while in course of employment, which act is appropriate and helpful to accomplishment of purpose of employment, is hazard of such employment.
   ROBINSON, J.

1. The fact that a regular and continuously employed employe of an employer who is subject to the burdens and entitled to the benefits of the workmen’s compensation law receives an injury at a time when he is in the course of his employment, both with such employer and in the course of a casual employment with another employer, with the consent of his regular employer, will not -prevent him, or, in case of his death, his dependents, from participating in the state insurance fund.

2. An employe is in the course of his employment while he is performing the obligation of his contract of employment.

3. An accident incident to or the result of an act done while in the course of his employment, which act is appropriate and helpful to the accomplishment of the purpose of his employment, is a hazard of such employment.

(Marshall, CJ., Day, Allen and Matthias, JJ., concur.)