Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

On the evening of September 13, 1932, L. V. Wilson was hired as an orange picker by the G-arden G-rove Mutual Orange Association. His hours of employment were to be from 7 o’clock in the morning to 4:30 o’clock in the afternoon of each day, with one-half hour off for lunch. His compensation was to be five cents for each box of oranges picked. His employment was to commence on September 14, 1932. On the morning of that day he called at the residence of the field foreman of the G-arden G-rove Mutual Orange Association and learned the location of the orchard in which he was to pick and was given a time-book to deliver to the picking boss. He reached the orchard at about five minutes before 7. A public road bounded the orchard on the south. Wilson parked his car on the south side of the road, crossed it, laid his picking sack on the ground, and gave the time-book to the picking boss who assigned him a ladder which he laid on his picking sack. The picking boss told him that as there were no picking boxes delivered at the orchard he would have to await their arrival before commencing work. Wilson crossed to the south side of the road and joined in conversation with about ten other…