33 A.D.2d 854 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1969
Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed January 3, 1969, which affirmed an award of death benefits to the widow of Thomas Richmond. Decedent, residing at South Glens Falls and employed as a laborer by Motif, Inc., a general construction contractor with headquarters at Latham, worked about four weeks at the Accord school between Kingston and Ellenville. On Friday, September 23, 1966, at about 4:00 p.m., while driving his own automobile from said job site towards home, he was involved in a head-on collision which caused his death. There was proof: that Richmond’s employment frequently required him to be away from home; that while working on said school job he stayed at a nearby motel; that he supplied his own trans