MATTER OF STONE v. COHEN BROS. & SONS


282 A.D. 900 (1953)

In the Matter of the Claim of George Stone, Appellant, v. Cohen Bros. & Sons et al., Respondents. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

October 16, 1953.


The board (with one member dissenting) has disallowed this claim upon the ground that the claimant was an independent contractor and not an employee of the respondent Cohen Bros. & Sons. The Cohen firm was in the wholesale fruit business in Passaic, New Jersey. Several times a week it sent its truck to a dock in the city of New York to pick up boxes and baskets of fruit. The truck driver would call upon one of a group of men standing about the dock to help him load his...

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