Court Opinion

ID: 9860450
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 23:22:28.25885+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:24:19.780844
License: Public Domain

PRESIDING JUSTICE BARRY, specially concurring: I concur with the result reached in the majority opinion. However, I cannot subscribe to all of my colleagues’ reasoning. In my opinion, the fact that the petitioner was performing a self-benefiting activity and that such activity was not within the duties of his employment, as found below, defeats a finding that petitioner’s injury “arose out of’ his employment. See Orsini v. Industrial Com. (1986), 142 Ill. App. 3d 540, 548-50, 491 N.E.2d 1360, 1366-67 (Barry, J., dissenting). As the majority correctly concludes, there was evidence presented here supporting the Commission’s determination that petitioner’s injury neither arose out of nor in the course of his employment. Because that determination is not contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence, I agree that the circuit court’s judgment should be affirmed.