Claim of Miller v. F. A. Bartlett Tree Expert Co.

This is a compensation case. The issue is a narrow one, namely, whether claimant’s injuries were causally connected with his employment or the result of a personal act.

*656The undisputed proof establishes that at the time of the accident the employer was engaged in the business of tree surgery and that it employed the claimant as its sales representative and general manager of its Kingston, New York, office.

In September, 1952 the claimant, at the request and direction of his employer, went to a three-day conference being held at Stamford, Connecticut. The conference was an annual affair and was…