Argonaut Insurance Company v. King

Deen, Judge.

1. There is ample evidence in the record in this workmen’s compensation case (in which the denial of an award to the spouse of the deceased made by the hearing director and affirmed by the full board was reversed by the judge of the Superior Court of Bibb County) that the action of the employee, a workman on a barge removing sand from the bottom of a pond, in re moving his upper clothing and diving from the barge to the water, where he drowned, was an act not arising "out of” his employment although performed "in the course of” it. U. S. F. & G. Co. v. Croft, 93 Ga. App. 114 (91…