Claim of Klein v. Sunrise Building Co.

Appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. The claimant was injured on March 2, 1955 while working on a house as a carpenter. He had entered into an agreement with the Sunrise Building Co., pursuant to which he was to receive the sum of $425 for performing certain work and under which he was designated as a subcontractor. The contract for the work had been procured from the home owner by a salesman, James Chambers, who split the profit from the transaction equally with one Frank Tursi, the owner of Sunrise Building Co. which was designated as the contractor in the…