 | 1888 - 992 pages
...by a blow with a pitchfork or a strain in handling it? And they define an accident as an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation, an event which proceeds from an unknown cause or the unusual effect of a known, and therefore not expected, chance, casualty, or contingency, happening... | |
 | 1917 - 766 pages
...meaning the word denotes 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, and therefore was not expected; * * * an event which under the circumstances is unusual and unexpected by the person... | |
 | 1884 - 970 pages
...event, incident, casualty, chance. And by Webster, an event that takes place without one's forethought or expectation ; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusal effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected ; chance, casuality, contingency. In view... | |
 | 1906 - 1076 pages
...entitled to recover." As the word "accident," in Its most commonly accepted meanIng, denotes an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation,...an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or an unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected, chance, casualty, contingency (1 Oye.... | |
 | 1926 - 254 pages
...North America Bank v. Cooper, 137 US 479. "An accident or casualty, according to common understanding, proceeds from an unknown cause or is an unusual effect of a known cause. Either may be properly said to occur by chance and unexpectedly."— Per Harían, J., in Chicago, etc.,... | |
 | 1923 - 1648 pages
...these instructions, denotes an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation, . . . or is an unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected. . . . It is an event happening unexpectedly or undesignedly." This instruction, together with plaintiff's... | |
 | 1913 - 976 pages
...ployees left a terminal, and which could not have been foreseen." VI. "By a casualty is meant an act which proceeds from an unknown cause or is an unusual effect of a known cause." IT. S. vs. KCS Ey. Co., 189 Fed., 477. Citing C., etc., RR Co. vs. Pullman Sou. Car Co., 139 US, 79,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1919 - 1154 pages
...as we have seen, from a cause unknown. An accident or casualty, according to common understanding, proceeds from an unknown cause or is an unusual effect of a known cause. Either may be properly said to occur by chance and unexpectedly. Webster's Diet. ; Imperial Diet. It... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service - 1959 - 1390 pages
...steadily operating cause. Charles J. Fay. v. fielvering, 120 Fed. (2d) 253. Also, an accident or casualty W v V ăk a W 8 冏Dn 埈 ։ Z K &: S o Ƒz ?*>GT Either may be said to occur by chance and unexpectedly. Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans Railroad Co.... | |
 | 1923 - 1654 pages
...these instructions, denotes an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation, . . . or is an unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected. . . . It is an event happening unexpectedly or undesignedly." This instruction, together with plaintiff's... | |
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