Comparri v. James Readding, Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Donges, J.

This is a compensation case in which the decedent met his death while driving a truck in the State of New York, apparently by reason of the truck going overboard into a stream and the decedent being drowned. The accident occurred on July 8th, 1935. The testimony was that at the time of his death decedent was earning $30 a week for four days’ work, and it was computed that compensation should be upon the basis of $37.50 for a week’s work. Decedent left a wife and daughter, having been married April 9th, 1920, and the daughter, Lorraine…