Hewitt v. Startop Ranch, Inc.

Appeals from decisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed February 23, 1971, December 27, 1972 and June 15, 1973, which made an award against the employer individually for double compensation under section 14-a of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. Claimant, a 16-year-old, was employed parttime as a handyman by appellant, the operator of a horse-breeding farm. The record reveals that his duties included cleaning stalls, filling water buckets and running errands. On January 30, 1966, he was directed by appellant’s foreman to drive a jeep owned by Appellant away from the farm to pick up…