Ex Parte Terry

Under the provisions of our Workmen’s Compensation Act “personal injuries * * * arising out of and in the course of his [the workman’s] employment” do not include “an injury caused by the act of a third person or fellow employé intended to injure the employé because of reasons personal to him, and not directed against .him as an employé, or because of his employment.” Gen. Acts 1919, p. 238, § 36 (2) (J).

The only controverted question in the instant case is whether the injuries suffered by the plaintiff — knife wounds inflicted upon him by Elbert Wallace in the course of a felonious assault…