Covington v. Berkeley Granite Corp.

Atkinson, Justice.

The caption of the workmen’s compensation act is as follows: “An act to prevent industrial accidents; to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or death sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods of insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an Industrial Commission for the administration of this act and to prescribe the powers of such commission, and for other purposes.” Ga. Laws 1920, p. 167. Section 2(d) provides: “‘Injury’ and ‘personal injury’ shall mean only…