Alberta Contracting Corp. v. Santomassimo

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

The Alberta Contracting Corporation, the prosecutor of this writ, seeks to set aside the judgment of the Essex County Court of Common Pleas affirming an award by the workmen’s compensation bureau to the petitioner on account of an injury to a workman resulting in death.

The material facts are not in dispute. Substantially they are as follows: Giuseppe Yespa, the decedent, was employed by the Alberta Contracting Corporation, as a laborer at its stone quarry at a place known as Beech Glen “in the woods,” thirteen miles from Boonton.…