 I come therefore to the conclusion that the expression 'accident' is used in the popular and ordinary sense of the word as denoting an unlooked-for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed.  The Scots Law Times - Page 1251915Full view - About this book
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 854 pages
...compensation act ? An "accident" is defined, in Fenton v. Thorely & Co., 72 L. JKB 790, as follows : "The expression 'accident' is used in the popular and ordinary sense of the word as denoting an unlocked for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed." This definition is approved... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 836 pages
...and violently.' " In the Adams Case we adopted the language in Fenton v. Thorley & Co., 72 LJKB 790: "The expression 'accident' is used in the popular and ordinary sense of the word as denoting an unlocked for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed." Being unable upon principle... | |
 | Law - 1917 - 498 pages
...litigation has arisen. What is an accident? It has been laid down that the word accident must be interpreted in the popular and ordinary sense of the word as denoting an unlocked for mishap. Then there is the distinction between disease and accident. It was thought that... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1923 - 1220 pages
...Report, 684, б W. С. С. 1, where the rule is announced as follows: " • • • The expression of 'accident' is used in the popular and ordinary sense...untoward event which is not expected or designed." We have no fault to find with the rule defining an accident, but, applying this rule to the case at... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1234 pages
...the Etaglish Compensation Act, Lord Macnaghten said In Fenton v. Thorley & Co., Ld., [1903] AC 443: "The expression 'accident' is used, in the popular and ordinary sense of the word, as denoting an unlocked for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed." This court has defined... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1230 pages
...staid that the word "accident," as used in the British act, was used In Its popular ordinary sense as denoting an unlooked-for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed. Reference is made to Stewart v. Coal Co., 5 F. 120, where a miner strained his back In replacing a... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1927 - 1232 pages
...Macnaghten, in Fenton v. Thorley, [1003] AC 443, a leading case in England, as follows: "I come, therefore, to the conclusion that the expression 'accident' is...untoward event which is not expected or designed." In the case of Ismay, Imrie & Co. v. Williamson, 1908 App. Cas. 437, compensation was sought for the... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1118 pages
...injury by accident " in the English Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Viet. chap. 37, § 1) as an unlooked-for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed. (Fenton v. Thorley & Co., Ltd., LR [1903] AC 443 ; 5 WCC 1.) The felon was the unexpected result of... | |
 | Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - Great Britain - 1907 - 712 pages
...accident. "The word 'accident' is used in the popular and ordinary sense (if the word, as denoting unlooked-for mishap, or an untoward event which is not expected or designed,"^?- Lord Macnaghten ; or as meaning " Any unexjjected personal injury resulting to the workman in the course... | |
 | James Biggs Porter - Accident insurance - 1908 - 658 pages
...terms of a particular policy. Referring to the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, Lord Macnaghten said "the expression 'accident ' is used in the popular...untoward event which is not expected or designed," and Lord Shand, referring to the same Act, was of opinion that the word accident " denotes or includes... | |
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