Mizell v. Mercer

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• injuries “need not arise from something peculiar to the employment”
• employer has the burden of proof when raising an affirmative defense
• assault on an employee arose out of employment when “the conditions of [the employee’s] employment did not merely provide the time and place for the assault, but increased the risk of attack, and subjected him to a danger peculiar to his employment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).