Robbins v. Nicholson

SHAEP, Justice.

Under the Workmen’s Compensation Act a compensable death is one which results to an employee from an injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. G.S. 97-2(6) (1965); Cole v. Guilford County, 259 N.C. 724, 131 S.E. 2d 308 (1963). The two italicized phrases are not synonymous; they “involve two ideas and impose a double condition, both of which must be satisfied in order to bring a case within the Act.” Sweatt v. Board of Education, 237 N.C. 653, 657, 75 S.E. 2d 738, 742 (1953).

This appeal presents only the question whether the deaths of Terri and…