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McDONALD v. ATLANTIC STEEL CO.

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133 Ga. App. 157 (1974)

210 S.E.2d 344

McDONALD v. ATLANTIC STEEL COMPANY.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided October 11, 1974.

Rehearing Denied October 24, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. C. Rary, Jack Dorsey, for appellant.

Jones, Bird & Howell, Arthur Howell, III, for appellee.

DEEN, Judge.

1. No workmen's compensation is allowable for the employee's intentionally self-inflicted injury. Code § 114-105.

2. Although suicide is by definition death self-inflicted, suicide does not ipso facto preclude compensation where injury is its proximate cause; that is, where it is caused by severe pain and despair proximately resulting from the accident sufficient to cause a disturbance of the...

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