Towle v. Department of Transportation, State Highway

POMEROY, Justice.

Every word of the phrase “by accident arising out of and in the course of his *72employment,” 1 standing alone has a clear meaning.2

Put the words together and one produces the occasion for nearly as much litigation as was produced by the words “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”! Constitution of the United States, Amendment I.

The words first appeared together in a Maine statute in 1915. P.L.1915, c. 295.

In the ensuing years to this date this Court has had occasion to interpret the phrase in Patrick v. J. B. Ham Co., 119 Me. 510, 111 A. 912…