Reports of cases under the Workmen's compensation act, Volum 2

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Side xiv - ... in the usual course of the trade, business, profession, or occupation of his employer.
Side 77 - Where the injury for which compensation is payable under this Act was caused under circumstances creating a legal liability in some person other than the employer...
Side 94 - ... one-half the difference between his average weekly wages before the injury and the average weekly wages which he is able to earn thereafter...
Side 188 - ... regard may be had to the average weekly amount which, during the twelve months previous to...
Side 335 - It need not have been foreseen or expected, but after the event it must appear to have had its origin in a risk connected with the employment, and to have flowed from that source as a rational consequence.
Side 46 - If the employee leaves dependents only partly dependent upon his earnings for support at the time of his injury, the weekly compensation to be paid as aforesaid shall be equal to the same proportion of the weekly payments for the benefit of persons wholly dependent as the amount contributed by the employee to such partial dependents bears to the annual earnings of the deceased at the time of his injury.
Side 104 - Every person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written...
Side xvi - serious and willful misconduct" is described by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts as being something "much more than mere negligence, or even gross or culpable negligence," and as involving "conduct of a quasi criminal nature, the intentional doing of something either with the knowledge that it is likely to result in serious injury or with a wanton and reckless disregard of its probable consequences.
Side 265 - The additional amounts provided for in this section in case of the loss of a hand, foot, thumb, finger, toe or phalange, shall also be paid for the number of weeks above specified in case the injury is such that the hand, foot, thumb, finger, toe or phalange is not lost but so injured as to be permanently incapable of use.
Side 99 - injuries,' and has sought to demonstrate that it cannot apply to an injury such as that sustained in the case at bar. But the argument is not convincing. It might be decisive if 'accident' had been the statutory word. It is true that in interpreting a statute words should be construed in their ordinary sense. Injury, however, is usually employed as an inclusive word. The fact remains' that the word 'injury,' and not 'accident,' was employed by the Legislature throughout this act.

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