Claim of Fineman v. Albany Evening Union Co.

Appeal from an award to dependent father for death benefits. Deceased was employed to deliver newspapers. In this employment, at about six p. m., November 9, 1936, he was driving his automobile from Westerlo to South Westerlo. While thus driving he passed another car which had hit a deer. He stopped, backed his car some distance to a place near the other car, left his car, walked across the road and talked for two or three minutes with William Barkman, the other driver, who asked decedent if he could ride with him to Barkman’s home, which was about two miles away. Seeing the lights of an…