Manukau v Attorney-General - [1960] NZLR 1176

Workers' Compensation — Liability for compensation — Serious and wilful misconduct — Worker travelling as passenger in truck drinking with driver — Passenger injured as result of accident to truck — Guilty of serious and wilful misconduct, but such misconduct not cause of accident — Workers' Compensation Act 1956, s. 34.

Workers' Compensation — Arising out of and in course of the employment — Worker travelling as passenger in truck interrupting course of employment by drinking in hotel with driver — Course of employment resumed when journey resumed — Insobriety of driver not an "added risk" such as to prevent accident arising "out of" the employment.