Court Opinion

ID: 9625796
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 07:51:21.977087+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:06:15.461561
License: Public Domain

Price, J.
(dissenting): While changing clothes in preparation for the day’s work the workman bent over suddenly to untie his shoes. He then felt a sharp pain in his side, the result of hernia.
Assuming, but not conceding, that here the workman sustained an “accidental injury” within the meaning of the compensation act, I cannot agree that it arose out of the employment. It seems to me that the court’s decision construes the phrases “out of” and “in the course of” (the employment) as being, for all practical purposes, synonymous, whereas each has a separate, well-defined meaning. In order for an injury to be compensable both requirements must exist. I concede that here the injury occurred “in the course of” the employment and that it can be said to be an “incident” of the employment, but how can it be said that it arose “out of” such employment?
Certainly there was nothing in the nature of his employment or occupation, or any exposure to which he was subjected, which caused the injury. In fact, I fail to see any causal connection whatsoever between the conditions under which the work was required to be performed and the resulting injury. I therefore dissent.