Held (diss Lord Robertson) that a workman, who in the course of his employment as a woolsorter contracted anthrax from infected wool, had sustained ‘personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment,’ within the meaning of section 1 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act 1897.
Lord Chancellor (Halsbury), Lords Macnaghten, Robertson, and Lindley
[1905] UKHL 862, 42 SLR 862
Bailii
Workmen’s Compensation Act 1897 1
England and Wales
Updated: 06 August 2021; Ref: scu.621174