... happening by chance ; unexpectedly taking place; not according to the usual course of things, or not as expected;' that, if a result is such as follows from ordinary means, voluntarily employed, in a not unusual or unexpected way, it cannot be called... The Southwestern Reporter - Page 481900Full view - About this book
| Donald J. Kiser - Employers' liability - 1917 - 166 pages
...be due to oversight and negligence." Vennen v. New Dells Lumber Co., supra. [a] Other deflnltio: (1) "Happening by chance; unexpectedly taking place; not...to the usual course of things; or not as expected." Robbins v. Original Gas Engine Co., (Mich.) 157 NW 437, 438. (2) "Happening by chance, or unexpectedly... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1198 pages
...Workmen's Compensation, pp. 8, 9. "Accidental" has been defined by the United States Supreme Court as "happening by chance ; unexpectedly taking place ;...the usual course of things ; or not as expected." Mutual Accident Ass'n v. Barry, 131 US 100, 121, 9 Sup. Ct. 755, 762 (33 L. Ed. 60); Matter of Moore... | |
| New York (State). Department of Labor - Labor - 1917 - 778 pages
...accidental," as used in an accidental insurance policy, as used " in its ordinary, popular sense, as meaning 'happening by chance; unexpectedly taking place; not...to the usual course of things; or not as expected; ' * * * if a' result is such as follows from ordinary means, voluntarily employed, in a not unusual... | |
| Martin P. Cornelius - Accident insurance - 1917 - 140 pages
...element of accident in the means bringing about the accidental result. Proposition No. 3. A result such as follows from ordinary means voluntarily employed in a not unusual or unexpected way cannot be called a result effected by accidental means, but if in the act which precedes the injury... | |
| Electronic journals - 1917 - 720 pages
...the earliest cases construing an accident policy the United States Supreme Court laid down this rule: that if a result is such as follows from ordinary means voluntarily employed in not an unusual and unexpected way, it cannot be as a result effected by accidental means, but if in... | |
| Illinois. Appellate Court, Martin L. Newell, Mason Harder Newell, Walter Clyde Jones, Keene Harwood Addington, Basil Jones, James Max Henderson, Ray Smith - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 726 pages
...request of appellees which defines " 'accidental means' as used in these instructions, " as : " An event happening by chance ; unexpectedly taking place ; not according to the usual course of things and when happening through human agency, an event which under the circumstances is unusual and not... | |
| Frederick Hampden Bacon - Accident insurance - 1917 - 980 pages
...unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected; chance, casualty, contingency, unexpectedly happening by chance, unexpectedly taking place, not according to the usual course of things. Perhaps in a strict sense, any event which is brought about by design of any person is not accident,... | |
| Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of California - Insurance, Life - 1917 - 228 pages
...The Supreme Court of the United States, construing the insuring clause of an Accident policy, ruled that: "If a result is such as follows from ordinary means voluntarily employed in not an unusual and unexpected way, it cannot be, as a result, effected by accidental means, but if,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1178 pages
...used in its ordinary and popular sense, means the happening by chance ; taking place unexpectedly ; not according to the usual course of things or not as expected. If an injury or death is the result of a man's intentional act, it is not an accident, but if preceding... | |
| New York (State). Dept. of Labor - New York (State) - 1918 - 638 pages
...accidental," as used in an accidental insurance policy, as used " in its ordinary, popular sense, as meaning ' happening by chance ; unexpectedly taking place ;...to the usual course of things; or not as expected; ' * * " if S result is such as follows from ordinary means, voluntarily employed, in a not unusual... | |
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