Case Name: INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION v. BARBER
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1927-11-30
Citations: 5 Ohio Law Abs. 782
Docket Number: No. 20444
Parties: INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION v. BARBER
Judges: (Marshall, CJ., Day, Allen and Matthias, JJ., concur.)
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 5
Pages: 782–782

Head Matter:
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION v. BARBER
Ohio Supreme Court
No. 20444.
Decided Nov. 30, 1927.

Opinion:
1. An employe, who for the purpose of reaching his place of employment travels a course which affords the only unobstructed access thereto, enters the course of his employment within the contemplation of the Workmen's Compensation Law, when he reaches -the zone of such employment that is under the control of his employer, even though such zone be outside the enclosure of the employer.
2. The hazards of such zone growing out of the conditions and environments of the employment, and an injury received by an employes due to such hazards is compensable out of the industrial insurance fund of the Workmen's Compensation Law.
Judgment affirmed.
(Marshall, CJ., Day, Allen and Matthias, JJ., concur.)