Claim of Prince v. Kinney Rent-A-Car

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed June 21, 1971, which disallowed a claim for death benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. It is abundantly clear from the record that the decedent’s employment (as was his coemployee Leone’s) was to a marked extent governed by his own decision and conduct. He was a supervisor of several garages in New York City owned by the employer and moved about from garage to garage as he saw fit. He had a “ beeper ” which kept him in communication with the various garage locations and alerted him as to trouble or prob- . lems. One…