Claim of Ingraham v. Lane Construction Corp.

This is an appeal by claimant from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board which denied his claim for compensation.

Claimant was employed as an operator of a tournapull earth moving machine on a highway construction job near Amsterdam, N. Y. He and two of his fellow employees lived at Mechanic-ville, N". Y., and they customarily transported each other to the site of the work in their own cars in alternate weeks. On the day of his accident claimant rode to work with a fellow employee.

It had rained the day before the accident and when claimant arrived he was told by his foreman to wait…