Mehaffey v. Burger King

“It is not debatable that the Workmen’s Compensation Act is to be liberally construed to the end that the benefits thereof should not be denied upon technical, narrow and strict interpretation. The rule of liberal construction cannot be used to read into the Act a meaning *129alien to its plain and unmistakable words. We should not overstep the bounds of legislative intent, and make by judicial legislation our Workmen’s Compensation Act an Accident and Health Insurance Act.” Hatchett v. Hitchcock Corp., 240 N.C. 591, 593, 83 S.E.2d 539, 541 (1954) (citations and internal quotation marks omitted).…