Claim of the Commissioner of Taxation & Finance v. Ramapo Land Co.

Appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. The Ramapo Land Company, Inc., entered into a contract with J. Pedersen and T. Olsen for a specified price to do the carpentry work on a home which it was building on its land for the use of its superintendent. The intestate of claimant-administrator, a carpenter, was killed on the job. Pedersen and Olsen were not insured in New York; the Workmen’s Compensation Board, on re-examining the case has found that the actual supervision by Ramapo Land Company over the construction work and the carpenters engaged in it was so…