City of Jasper v. Sherer
Decision Date | 10 May 1962 |
Docket Number | 6 Div. 499 |
Parties | CITY OF JASPER v. Fannie SHERER. |
Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Tweedy & Beech, Jasper, for appellant.
Selman & Beaird and Wiggins & Wiggins, Jasper, for appellee.
This is a workmen's compensation case (Code 1940, Tit. 26, § 253 et seq., as amended) brought here by certiorari on petition of the defendant below (City of Jasper) to review a judgment of the circuit court of Walker County awarding compensation to plaintiff-appellee, as the widow of a deceased employee of defendant City.
As to the cause of employee's death, the trial court made the following factual findings, as required by § 304, Tit. 26, viz.:
There can be no award of compensation unless an employee's injury or death is 'caused * * * by an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment.' Section 253, Tit. 26, Code 1940. The term 'accident' is defined by amended § 262(i), Tit. 26, as meaning 'an unexpected or unforeseen event, happening suddenly and violently, with or without human fault, and producing at the time injury to the physical structure of the body by accidental means.' So, the first question presented, the answer to which is decisive of this appeal, is whether the facts as found by the trial court (assuming them to be supported by the evidence) show that the employee's death was caused by an 'accident.' Our conclusion is that it was not, making it unnecessary to decide...
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