Claim of Brill v. Jacobson

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed May 8, 1969, which affirmed the Referee’s decision that there was no advance payment of compensation and ordered the ease closed. This case comes to us upon a stipulated shortened record and the only issue presented is that of advanced payments of compensation. The record reveals that claimant was employed as a housekeeper-companion to respondent Jacobson at a salary of $400 per month, plus room and board. Claimant testified that on December 4j 1961 she was injured while in respondent’s employment; that a doctor was summoned…