because of employment

As the phrase appears in a provision of a workmen's compensation statute relieving the employer from liability for injuries inflicted upon an employee by the wilful act of a third person directed against an employee "because of his employment," it means, not that the employer is relieved from liability where the employee was injured merely because he was in employment in the general sense of that term, but rather where it was apparent that the injury was inflicted because the assailant of the employee wished to prevent him from serving that particular employer. Pinkerton Nat. Detective Agency v Walker, 157 Ga 548, 122 SE 202, 35 ALR 557.