Claim of Rapp v. Furniture Express, Inc.

Appeal by employer and its insurance carrier from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board awarding death benefits to a widow and minor children of the deceased. Decedent was the office manager and traffic dispatcher of his employer, a corporation engaged in the transportation of furniture, at its Jamestown, New York, terminal. On Saturday, July 18, 1959, he left his home at about 8:00 am., in his own motor vehicle, to go to his work, stopped at the post-office box of his employer to procure its mail as was his custom, proceeded a short distance to the office of another trucking concern…