The employer was engaged in the construction of a public highway near Poughkeepsie, New York, and the decedent was employed as a laborer and union shop steward. In the latter capacity he had considerable authority and jurisdiction as to the employees working on the job. There is much controverted testimony concerning his activities on the afternoon and early evening of January 27, 1956, which ultimately resulted in leaving in his automobile for the alleged purpose of going...
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