Claims of Newman v. Public Distributors, Inc.

Appeal from decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board in two eases. Newman, the claimant in one' of the cases, was a member of a sales crew engaged in selling encyclopedias from door to door, in various communities in upstate New York. Bernard Carr, the decedent in the other case, was employed as a delivery man by the same employer. Most of the men in the crew lived in and around New York City and, in order to(. induce men to take the jobs in the upstate territory, the employer arranged to have Newman transport the men to New York City in his car, for weekend visits from time to…