Claim of Carniato v. Foster Wheeler Corp.

Claimant is a production engineer. On March 4, 1948 he fell from a swivel chair and ruptured a tendon in the left leg. He returned to work on May 3,1948.

The brief of the appellants states after claimant returned to work, that “by way of aiding the progress of the claimant’s recovery from the injury and rehabilitation, the employer and carrier voluntarily reimbursed the claimant for gasoline used in his own automobile in travelling between his home in the Bronx and the employer’s place of business ” in downtown Manhattan.

Also, in the words of the brief, “ in the interests of aiding the…