Claim of Stone v. Cohen Bros. & Sons

Appeal by the claimant from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, disallowing his claim. The board (with one member dissenting) has disallowed this claim upon the ground that the claimant was an independent contractor and not an employee of the respondent Cohen Bros. & Sons. The Cohen firm was in the wholesale fruit business in Passaic, New Jersey. Several times a week it sent its truck to a dock in the city of New York to pick up boxes and baskets of fruit. The truck driver would call upon one of a group of men standing about the dock to help him load his truck. It was the duty of…