9 A.D.2d 575 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1959
Appeal by the employer and carrier from an award of death benefits upon the grounds of: (1) lack of jurisdiction of the board; and (2) assuming jurisdiction, that the accident did not arise out of and in the course of employment. The employer, with its principal office in New York City, operates a very large business with plants in many States and employs about 23,000 employees. It has a definite recruiting and student training department for the purpose of hiring and training college graduate engineers. Decedent, a resident of Flushing, New York, was hired in New York pursuant to this program. He was always paid from the New York office by checks drawn on a New York bank. The New York office was headquarters for the student training program. At the time of his accident decedent was temporarily assigned