Legal Opinion

Claim of Wood v. Papaw

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided November 10, 1920Published

Appeal by the defendants, A. T. Papaw and another, from a decision and award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 26th day of February, 1920.

1Opinion of the Court

John M. Kellogg, P. J.:

The employer carried on a meat market at Lake Placid, at which he sold fruit, which was carried on by himself and two employees. During the summer months he carried on a fruit store in a separate building not adjoining the meat market. His wife and the injured employee attended to the business. The employee had never worked in the meat market but was employed June twenty-eighth to work in the fruit store and her employment would terminate at the close of the store in the fall, or sooner. It was not the intention that she should perform any service in or about the meat…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Claim of Sabatelli v. De RobertisAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1920

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