Adel v. Rubin

Cochrane, P. J.:

• This award should have been denied because the claimant was an independent contractor. The alleged employer owned a seventeen-story loft building the second story of which it used as a salesroom in its business of selling coats and suits. A contract for work of some kind not definitely shown in connection with the building was in process of execution by a contractor. Claimant is a painter and worked for said contractor. Independently of that contract he undertook to paint some pipes for the owner in the second story of the building occupied by itself which work was not…