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ROBBINS v. NICHOLSON

No. 58.

188 S.E.2d 350 (1972)

281 N.C. 234

Clydene W. ROBBINS, widow, et al., Employee, Plaintiff, v. O. T. NICHOLSON, Employer, Casualty Reciprocal Exchange, Carrier, Defendants.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 10, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. H. Suddarth, Jr., and Jack E. Klass, Lexington, for claimants Robbins.

J. Lee Wilson and Ned A. Beeker, Lexington, for claimants Lewis.

Kennedy, Covington, Lobdell & Hickman by Edgar Love, III, Charlotte, for defendant appellants.

SHARP, Justice:

Under the Workmen's Compensation Act a compensable death is one which results to an employee from an injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. G.S. § 97-2(6) (1965); Cole v. Guilford County, 259 N.C. 724, 131 S.E.2d 308 (1963). The two italicized phrases are not synonymous; they "involve two ideas and impose a double condition, both of...

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