El v. Newark Star-Ledger

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Perskie, J.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. R. S. 34:15-7, et seq. The basic question for decision on the facts of this case is whether petitioner was correctly adjudged to have suffered a compensable accident, or whether petitioner should have been adjudged not to have suffered such an accident because, as urged for prosecutors, his employer and its insurance carrier, petitioner was “engaged” in one or more of the activities set down in R. S. 84:15-36, paragraph 3, which reads as follows:

“A person engaged in the vending, selling or offering for…