Decisions of the Court of Arbitration Under "The Workers' Compensation for Accidents Act, 1900"., Volym 3

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Sida xliv - The question always is, was there an unbroken connection between the wrongful act and the injury, — a continuous operation? Did the facts constitute a continuous succession of events, so linked together as to make a natural whole, or was there some new and independent cause intervening between the wrong and the injury?
Sida lxxvi - It is conceded that the relation of master and servant existed between the plaintiff and the defendant at the time of the accident.
Sida xxxi - When the injury was caused by the personal negligence or wilful act of the employer or of some person for whose act or default the employer is responsible, nothing in this Act shall affect any civil liability of the employer, but in that case the workman may, at his option, either claim compensation under this Act or take proceedings independently of this Act...
Sida xxviii - 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...
Sida xxxii - ... independently of this Act for injury caused by any accident, and it is determined in such action that the injury is one for which the employer is not liable in such action, but that he would have been liable to pay compensation under the provisions of this Act, the action shall be dismissed ; but the court in which the action is tried shall, if the plaintiff...
Sida xxxiv - This phrase means, not the initiation of proceedings before the tribunal by which the compensation is to be assessed, but a notice of a claim for compensation, sent to the workman's employer...
Sida lxxix - A against the railroad company for damages it was held that the relation of master and servant did not exist between the plaintiff and...
Sida lxii - ... (1) Proceedings for the recovery under this act of compensation for an injury shall not be maintainable. unless notice of the accident has been given as soon as practicable after the happening thereof, and before the workman has voluntarily left the employment in which he was injured...
Sida xxxiii - Act shall affect the civil liability of the employer, " but in that case the depend'ants may at their option either claim compensation under this Act or take proceedings independently of this Act, but the employer shall not be liable to pay compensation .... both independently of and also under this Act.
Sida xxxiii - It appears to me that the statute deliberately and designedly avoided anything like technology. I should judge from the language and the mode in which the statute has been enacted that it contemplated what would be a horror to the mind of a lawyer, namely, that there should not be any lawyers employed at all, and that the man who was injured should be able to go himself and say,

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