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- Title: Deborah Snowbarger v. Tri-County Electric
- Author : Supreme Court of Missouri
- Release Date : January 31, 1990
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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Tri-County Electric Cooperative appealed from a final award by the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission in favor of Deborah
Snowbarger and Jason Snowbarger. The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, reversed the judgment. This Court accepted
transfer to determine whether an exception to the coming and going rule can be applied to an accident that occurs at a distance
of 22 miles from the place of employment, when a causal connection between the accident and the employment has been determined.
§ 287.020.5, RSMo 1986. This Court affirms the Commission's award of full benefits to respondents. Mitchell Snowbarger, the husband and father of respondents, was an employee of Tri-County. During an emergency created by
an ice storm, he worked 86 of a 100.5 hour period between Saturday, November 30, and Thursday, December 5, 1985. The overtime
work was required by his employer and included cutting up trees with chain saws, digging holes by hand, and resetting poles.
At one o'clock a.m. on December 5, he went off duty. The Commission found that while returning home from Lancaster to Kirksville
Snowbarger fell asleep, his car went across the center line of the highway and crashed into a northbound vehicle driven by
Sonya Yaden, and he died at the scene of the accident.