Claim of Heikes v. Today's Displays, Inc.

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed August 4, 1971, which allowed a claim for death benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. Decedent was president and an employee of Today’s Displays, Inc., a corporation engaged in designing and constructing displays for various clients. On April 1, 1970 he was killed when the company owned car he was driving ran into an abutment on the Long Island Expressway at approximately 9:00 p.m. The proof showed, at the compensation hearing, that earlier that day decedent had visited the Eastman Kodak Gallery in New York City where…