 | Ezra Christian Ebersole - 1914 - 1708 pages
...usual course of things; — as an event which takes place without one's foresight or expectation; — which proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual...effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected. J§ 837-838. ACCIDENT INSURANCE. CHAP. 37 The following cases illustrate the difference between what... | |
 | 1914 - 1338 pages
...altercation An "accident" is an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an event that proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual effect of a known ! cause, therefore not expected (Webster's Diet.). Therefore, where one strikes another ! and in so doing bruises... | |
 | William Wheeler Thornton - 1916 - 1122 pages
...a person of reasonable prudence and foresight could not have guarded against. A casualty is an act which proceeds from an unknown cause or is an unusual effect of a known cause. Some of the authorities hold that an "unavoidable accident" is synonymous with "act of God," but the... | |
 | Homer Richey, Daunis McBride - 1916 - 858 pages
...any case of casualty or unavoidable accident or the act of God." Casualty has been defined as an act which proceeds from an unknown cause or is an unusual effect of a known cause.15 An unavoidable accident is said to be an inevitable accident which could not have been foreseen... | |
 | 1917 - 584 pages
...As applied in the law to litigation resulting from physical injuries: "An accident is an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation...therefore not expected ; chance ; casualty ; contingency. And 'accidental' signifies, happening by chance or unexpectedly ; taking place not according to the... | |
 | 1917 - 1180 pages
...decided majority of the courts stated as follows: 'Accident denotes an event that takes place without foresight or expectation ; an event which proceeds...therefore not expected; chance, casualty, contingency; an event happening without human agency, or, if happening through human agency, an event which under... | |
 | Frederick Hampden Bacon - 1917 - 980 pages
...effected by violence, but was there any accident ? Mr. Webster defines 'accident' to be an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation, an event which proceeds from unknown cause, or an unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected; chance, casualty,... | |
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - 1918 - 970 pages
...might have lived, but it is enough that the industry brought about this man's death. An accident is an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual effect of a known cause, Young v. Western Furniture & Mfg. Co. and, therefore, not expected. Chicago, St. L. & N. 0. It. Co.... | |
 | 1919 - 828 pages
...unexpected by the person to whom it happens. Hutton v. States, etc., Co., 186 111. App. 503. An event which takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an event which proceeds from unknown cause or is an unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected. Fidelity, etc.,... | |
 | Ohio. Circuit Court - 1920 - 652 pages
...takes place without one 's expectation ' ' — ' ' an undesigned, sudden and unexpected event" — "an event which proceeds from an unknown cause or...an unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore unexpected." The term "accidental means," as employed here, as we understand it, means accidental cause,... | |
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