188 Iowa 728 | Iowa | 1920
“The material evidence before the arbitration committee, submitted without the introduction of further testimony to the industrial accident board upon review, warranted the findings that the employee had a pre-existing constitutional disease, known as syphilis, which, being dormant, left his ability to perform the arduous work for which he was hired unimpaired, and that, because of the nature of the accident arising out of and in the course of employment, his nervous system suffered a shock sufficiently severe to
See, also, State v. District Court of St. Louis County, 137 Minn. 435 (163 N. W. 755); City of Milwaukee v. Industrial Com., 160 Wis. 238 (151 N. W. 247) ; Hartz v. Hartford F. Co., 90 Conn. 539 (97 Atl. 1020) ; Winter v. Atkinson, etc., Co., 88 N. J. L. 401 (96 Atl. 360) ; Ramlow v. Moon Lake Ice Co., 192 Mich. 505 (L. R. A. 1916 F, 955). Like decisions by commissioners of the several states will be found collected in Bradbury's Workmen's Compensation (3d Ed.) 566.
,. , , , . , , , . They [personal injuries] shall not m-elude a disease except as it shall result from the injury.”
In the English Act, as well as those of most of the states, the remedy provided is for “personal injury by accident,” and this is held to exclude diseases other than those in consequence of the injury. Manifestly, the term “personal injuries” is of much broader significance than “personal injury by accident.” It comprehends a great number of injuries, many of which will be found enumerated in Hurle’s Case, 217 Mass. 223 (Ann. Cas. 1915C 919), and in Madden’s Case, 222 Mass. 489 (111 N. E. 379). The manifest design of the general assembly, in providing that the term “personal injuries” should not include a disease, was to eliminate