This was quite a bizarre case. Angleton is the Plaintiff and Starkan is the Defendant. This is a workers compensation case filed by Angleton's children and wife. On February 4th 1984 Angleton was employed by Starkan as a truck driver, tasked to haul a load of cattle from Oklahoma to Kansas. 

Meanwhile a third party Roberta and Gary Hall ranchers and truckers from Oregon had delivered a haul from Oregon to Texas. On the return over they intended to hijack another tuckers load to take back with them to their ranch. That's when they spotted Angletons cattle load, and located their target. 

Roberta Hall was able to contact Angleton through a shared band radio. She was able to convince him to pull over with the offer of smoking marijuna with her. Eventually Angleton got into their vehicle, and was shot in the head by Gary Hall. Eventually the Hall’s switched the truck loads, and brought the load back to Oregon. Where they buried Angletons body in their yard. 

It was presumed that Angleton had stolen the load and an arrest warrant was put out for him. In early 1987 a few years after the Hall’s divorce, Roberta confessed to their crime, and Anderson’s body was recovered. Soon after the family of Angleton filed for the workers compensation. 

Following the first hearing, the administrative law judge denied worker compensation. The judge stated that because Angleton had accepted the invitation to smoke marijuana he “ deviated from his employment with the respondent, and at that time was on a ‘frolic of his own”. Although the family of Angleton asked for a directors review of the judged award. 

After review, the court concluded that the family should be granted workers compensation. This is because the reason Angleton was targeted was due to the cattle load he was hauling for Starkan. Transporting this valuable product increased Angletons risk of being robbed, more so than if he was just a normal driver. Therefore Angletons death arose out of his employment.