Workmen's Compensation Decisions Minnesota Rendered by the State Supreme Court and the Industrial Commission of Minnesota During the Period Beginning ... and Ending ..., Volume 2

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Industrial Commission of Minnesota, 1924
 

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Page 158 - ... arising out of and in the course of his employment," within the meaning of the workmen's compensation law.
Page 156 - The causative danger must be peculiar to the work, and not common to the neighborhood. It must be incidental to the character of the business, and not independent of the relation of master and servant. 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.
Page 100 - Such acts as are necessary to the life, comfort, and convenience of the servant, while at work, though strictly personal to himself, and not acts of service, are incidental to the service, and injury sustained in the performance thereof is deemed to have arisen out of the employment.
Page 158 - It was contended that the deceased was not in the course of his employment at the time of the accident. The...
Page 155 - Under this test, if the injury can be seen to have followed as a natural incident of the work and to have been contemplated by a reasonable person familiar with the whole situation as a result of the exposure occasioned by the nature of the employment, then it arises 'out of the employment.
Page 14 - ... any person whose employment is but casual and not in the usual course of the trade, business, profession' or occupation of his employer.
Page 95 - accident," as used in this act shall, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the context, be construed to mean an unexpected or unforeseen event happening suddenly and violently, with or without human fault and producing at the time objective symptoms of an injury. The terms "injury " and "personal injuries " shall mean only violence to the physical structure of the body and such disease or infection as naturally results therefrom.
Page 347 - Such agreement shall be a surrender by the parties thereto of their rights to any other method, form or amount of compensation or determination thereof...
Page 73 - Technical rules of evidence or procedure not required. The commission or a commissioner or deputy commissioner in making an investigation or inquiry or conducting a hearing shall not be bound by common law or statutory rules of evidence or by technical or formal rules of procedure, except as provided by this chapter; but may make such investigation or inquiry or conduct such hearing in such manner as to ascertain the substantial rights of the parties.
Page 200 - Constitution, which provides that "no law shall embrace more than one subject, which shall be expressed in its title.

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