# Barnett v. Britling Cafeteria Co.

> Supreme Court of Alabama · June 30, 1932 · 225 Ala. 462

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3225551

## Case

- **Full name:** Barnett v. Britling Cafeteria Co.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** June 30, 1932
- **Citations:** 225 Ala. 462; 143 So. 813; 85 A.L.R. 85; 1932 Ala. LEXIS 216
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Bouldin
- **Judges:** Anderson, Thomas, Bouldin, Foster, Gardner, Brown, Knight
- **Cited by:** 46 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that employee injured while in “zone of danger” created by employment would be considered in the course of the employment while coming to work

## Opinion text

BOULDIN, J.
(concurring).
The hazard causing this injury, slippery ice on the sidewalk, was incident to and grew out of the operation of the employer’s business.
The zone of danger to employees from the operation of a business is a material factor in defining the premises of the employer.
The fundamental basis of compensation laws is to east upon the business itself a part of the burden of accidents to employees growing out of the relation of employer and employee rather than leave the entire burden to be borne by the employee, the victim of accident.
The employee here was at this place because of her employment, her movement in course of her employment. The time and place, the hazard, the presence and movements of the injured, were all so closely related to the employment that I am impelled to concur in the opinion of Chief Justice ANDERSON, holding the injury arose out of and in course of the employment within the meaning of our Workmen’s Compensation Law (Code 1923¡, §§ 7534-7597), always to be liberally construed to award rather than to deny compensation.

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