Horn v. Planters Products Co.

1. Under tlie workmen’s compensation act, the rights and remedies therein granted to an employee “where he and his employer have accepted the provisions of this act respectively to pay and accept compensation on account of personal injury or death by accident shall exclude all other rights and remedies of such employee, his personal representative, parents, dependents, or next of kin, at common law or otherwise on account of such injury, loss of service or death.” Ga. L. 1920, pp. 167, 176, § 12; Michie’s Code (1926), § 3154 (12). The use of the word “accident” in the section just quoted, as…