Court Opinion

ID: 9831094
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 20:48:32.086702+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:30.724338
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
In its motion for rehearing appellant complains that .this court has gone out of the record to find that the employee was subjected to unusual hazards resulting from the act of God, that she was wearing a headphone connected by wire to a network of wires entering the switchboard, “thus subjecting her to the multiplied dangers peculiar to her employment.” We do not feel that this criticism is justified. Certainly, we have not consciously gone out of the record in considering the case. The finding that the employee was subjected to unusual hazards, is but an obvious inference from the known fact that the employee was injured by an electric shock transmitted to her through the headphone she was wearing at the moment in, and as a means of, the performance of her work as a long-distance operator at the switchboard of a nation-wide telephone network, in its exchange in an important city, like Corpus Christi. Her peculiar danger was incident to her employment. Whether arising directly or indirectly from the act of God, it was uncommon, unusual, was not communicable to the general public not so situated. The authorities cited in the original opinion say this constitutes an unusual and therefore greater hazard resulting from the act of God within the contemplation of the exception to the statute invoked by appellant.
Appellant’s motion will be overruled.