Court Opinion

ID: 9610972
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 03:50:12.912437+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:03:07.700790
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*752Judge HILL
dissenting.
There was ample evidence to support the Commissioner’s findings. Plaintiff was not necessarily obligated to take the most direct route from the church to her home. In this case, however, she swung a loop which was nine blocks north of and fourteen blocks west of her home. By inference, she would have to return south nine blocks and eastward fourteen blocks to arrive at her home. A map of the town was used by the Commissioner to show that plaintiff traveled several miles out of the way rather than approximately one-fourth mile in a direct route to her home. Her route was through the downtown area and substantially past her home. Plaintiff agreed that this was a holiday with no traffic or less than usual traffic, and this defeats her argument as to why she took the “out-of-way” route.
Taking all of the testimony of the plaintiff and her witness into account, together with the physical facts, it is a reasonable, fair, and honest assumption that the plaintiff was on a personal objective and that it was a deviation from her employment. See Alford v. Chevrolet Co., 246 N.C. 214, 97 S.E. 2d 869 (1957), citing Withers v. Black, 230 N.C. 428, 58 S.E. 2d 668 (1949). The Hearing Commissioner so found by his order; the Full Commission ratified the order and by doing so ratified his finding. I dissent from the opinion of this Court and concur with the order entered by the Commission.