Workmen's Compensation Act, Injuries to which act applies.
The dependent widow of a salesman, who had been employed by a merchant and whose death had resulted from a fall on a public highway caused by his sleeping on ice while engaged in his employer's business, is not entitled to compensation under the workmen's compensation act, such injury not arising out of the salesman's employment.
CARROLL, J.
The employee was fatally injured as a result of a fall on the ice on a public highway. The injury did not arise out of his employment. It was not caused by it. The injury came from a hazard common to all who had occasion to use the public highway. It is impossible to distinguish this case from Donahue's Case, 226 Mass. 595, where it was held that an employee could not recover for an injury caused by a fall on an icy street. The case is governed by Donahue's Case. See Whitley's Case, ante, 211, and cases cited.
The decree must be reversed and a decree entered for the insurer.
So ordered.