in the course of the employment

A phrase sometimes understood to mean the same as within the scope of the employment, at other times construed to mean during the period of employment, such variation, of course, being most confusing where it is sought to impose liability on the employer for an injury occurring to a third person by the act of an employee. Penas v Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. 112 Minn 203, 127 NW 926. While engaged in the service of the employer; not synonymous with the phrase "during the period covered by his employment." Hickson v W. W. Walker Co. 110 Conn 604, 149 A 400, 68 ALR 1044; Slater v Advance Thresher Co. 97 Minn 305, 107 NW 133. Engaged in that activity which he was employed to pursue; not engaged in a pursuit of his own. White v Eastern Mfg. Co. 120 Me 62, 112 A 841, 16 ALR 1165, 1168; Jackson v American Tel. & Tel. Co. 139 NC 347, 51 SE 1015. Performing the work of the employer pursuant to the employer's directions. Braen v Pefeifer Oil Transp. Co. 361 US 129, 4 L Ed 2d 191, 80 S Ct 247. At work in the employer's service. Cox v Kansas City Refining Co. 108 Kan 320, 195 P 863, 19 ALR 90. Engaged in matters fairly incidental to the employment relationship. Gage v Connecticut General Life Ins. Co. (Mo App) 273 SW2d 761, 47 ALR2d 1234 (provision of group accident policy.) For the purposes of workmen's compensation:–within the period of employment, at a place where the employee reasonably may be in the performance of his duties, and while he is fulfilling those duties or engaged in doing something incidental thereto, or, as otherwise stated, engaged in the furtherance of the employer's business. 58 Am J1st Workm Comp § 212. See scope of employment.