Allen v. Industrial Commission

HALL, Chief Justice:

(concurring and dissenting).

I concur in remanding this case to the Commission for the purpose of determining whether the work incident aggravated a preexisting condition such as would warrant an award of compensation.1 However, I do not join the Court in adopting an “unexpected result” standard to be applied in determining the existence of a compensa-ble accident.

I do not believe that this Court has “misconstrued the historical and logical” definition of “by accident” in the bulk of its recent cases concerning the issue at bar. The majority’s reliance upon Purity Biscuit…