Claim of Sloat v. Rochester Taxicab Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Rochester Taxicab Company and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 23d day of May, 1916.
1Opinion of the Court
Kellogg, P. J.:
The only question presented by this appeal is whether in determining the average weekly wages of the employee the tips received by him can be considered. It was stipulated that “there was a custom existing in the City of Rochester whereby users of taxicabs, upon paying their fare, gave to the drivers gratuities or tips, which is an amount in addition to the fare, and for the personal use of the driver; that such custom was known to the employer at the time he employed Warren Sloat to enter his service; that the average amount of tips so received * * * was the sum of 85^ a day,…
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