Claim of Smith v. Venezian Lamp Co.

This is an appeal from an award of compensation. The sole issue is whether claimant was an employee of the alleged employer at the time of the accident.

There is no dispute as to the facts. The alleged employer was a manufacturer of lamps, with its principal place of business at Brooklyn, New York. Claimant sought a job as a polisher, and the man in charge of the company’s polishing operations told claimant he would try him out. Accordingly claimant was given a part of a lamp to be polished, which was placed on a spool, and claimant attempted to polish the same by means of a buffing machine.…