Gaines Gentry Thoroughbreds/Fayette Farms v. Mandujano, 366 S.W.3d 456 (Ky. Sup. Ct. 2012)

(workers’ compensation case involving employee injured in car accident on cross-country return trip to employer’s ranch; employee planned to travel to yearlings sale out of state; employer requested employee ride in employer-provided transportation and accompany employer’s yearlings to sale instead; employee was to return to duty at the employer’s ranch at some time after the sale; employee rode in van, assisted with selling employer’s yearlings, then remained at sale working for other entities for a few days; employer left employee to find his own transportation back; administrative law judge found return trip was work-related because employee instructed to travel to out of state sale in employer transportation and return trip was part of employment; employer appealed; appellate court agreed the trip was work-related under the dual purpose doctrine, the accident occurred when employee was traveling back to employer, which was “necessary and inevitable” act of completing journey taken for employer).