Furey v. Thompson-Starrett Co.
Furey v. Thompson-Starrett Co.
Opinion of the Court
There was an award of compensation made, by Charles N. Corbin, a referee of the Workmen’s Compensation Bureau, under the Workmen’s Compensation act in favor of the petitioner-respondent, and upon appeal by the defendant-prosecutor to the Atlantic County Court of Common Pleas, the award made was there affirmed. The legal propriety of the award is now before us on writ of certiorari. '
The referee and the Common Pleas Court both found that at the time of the petitioner’s injury he was in the employ of the prosecutor and that the accident arose out of and in the course of the former’s employment. If there is any testimony which tends to sustain these findings, the award should not be. disturbed. That the petitioner was injured in an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment was and is not disputed. The disputed question, which is one of mixed law and fact, is, in whose employ was the petitioner at the time of his injury ?
The contention of counsel of the prosecutor is that the petitioner at the time of the accident was not in the employ of the prosecutor, and in support of this contention argues, that the petitioner had ceased his day’s labors -with the prosecutor at five p. m. ; that he was under the control and direction of Ferry & Sons or their agents at the time of the accident; that he was doing concrete work which is afield from his services for the prosecutor; that he was not under the control of the prosecutor, after five p. M., the union hours for ceasing labor and was not its to be loaned; that he knew Ferry & Sons had the concrete work and had been employed by them before, and that the lure of additional compensation was the magnet that continued his labor into the night.
We think the facts of this case fall within the decision of this court in Rongo v. Waddington, 87 N. J. L. 395, which case is controlling upon us.
Here, the prosecutor consented that the petitioner do the extra work, the effect of which was to enlarge the petitioner’s scope of employment. No relation of master and servant
Judgment is affirmed, with costs.
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