McDonald v. Atlantic Steel Co.

Deen, Judge.

1. No workmen’s compensation is allowable for the employee’s intentionally self-inflicted injury. Code § 114-105.

2. Although suicide is by definition death self-inflicted, suicide does not ipso facto preclude compensation where injury is its proximate cause; that is, where it is caused by severe pain and despair proximately resulting from the accident sufficient to cause a disturbance of the mind and the overriding of normal judgment to the extent that the act, although "purposeful” is found to be not "intentional.” Bullington v. Aetna Cas. &c. Co., 122 Ga. App. 842 (178 SE2d…