Hunt v. . State

By the terms of the North Carolina Workmen’s Compensation Act compensation may be paid to an employee or in case of his death to his dependents or legal representatives for personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. Code, 1931, sec. 8081 (i), (b), (f), (j), (k). We have said in previous decisions that it is not easy to give the phrase “out of and in the course of the employment” an accurate definition within which all facts calling for an application of the provisions of the act may be embraced. Obviously the terms are not synonymous; probably the one was…