A workman employed to do certain work by hand, and finding it more convenient to use his employer’s machinery for the purpose, did so unknown to his employers and was thereby injured.
Held that though he had acted within the scope of his employment and could not be said by his conduct to have brought on himself a new and added peril, he had failed to show that the accident arose ‘out of his employment.’
Lord Chancellor (Viscount Haldane), Lords Kinnear, Dunedin, and Atkinson
[1913] UKHL 861, 51 SLR 861
Bailii
England and Wales
Personal Injury, Employment
Updated: 17 January 2022; Ref: scu.632762