LEGAL DEFINITION
What an Accident is Not
“We cannot think disease produced by the action of a known cause can be considered as accidental," stated the Appeal Court judges in a judgment given yesterday. , , , “Thus disease or deatli engendered by exposure to heat, cold, damp, the vicissitudes of climate, or atmospheric influences, cannot, we think, properly be said to be accidental; unless at all events the exposure is itself brought about by cir cumstnnces which may give it the character of accident. . An injury is not caused by accident when it is the natural result of a natural cause.”
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 66, 11 December 1930, Page 10
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99LEGAL DEFINITION Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 66, 11 December 1930, Page 10
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