Claim of Coressmann v. R. J. Moran & Sons, Inc.

Claimant appeals from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board which reversed a referee’s award and denied her claim for death benefits arising out of her employee-husband’s death. The employer is a plumbing contractor and employed decedent as a plumber. Decedent resided in Buffalo, 1ST. Y., and was engaged in employment on a construction job in Akron, N. Y., a distance of about 20 miles from the Buffalo city line. Decedent drove his own ear from his home to the job and return. On the date of his death he left the job site at about 4:40 p.m., and while operating his own car on the…