Claim of Pettet v. Monroe County Emergency Work Bureau

Appeal by employer and insurance carrier from award of death benefits to widow and children of deceased. The appellants contend that deceased was an independent contractor and not an employee and also that when he was injured he was not in the course of his employment. Decedent, a truck owner, who drove his own truck, was employed under the same contract that was involved in the case of Matter of Lipary v. Rochester Monroe County Emergency Work Bureau (244 App. Div. 858). It was there held that the truck driver was an employee. Deceased was supposed to go to work at eight o’clock a. m. On…