Case Name: In the Matter of the Claim of Dorothy Fishbane, Respondent, against Congress Operating Corporation, Doing Business as Congress Hotel, Alleged Employer, and New Amsterdam Casualty Company, Appellants. State Industrial Board, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1938-09-28
Citations: 255 A.D. 738
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Claim of Dorothy Fishbane, Respondent, against Congress Operating Corporation, Doing Business as Congress Hotel, Alleged Employer, and New Amsterdam Casualty Company, Appellants. State Industrial Board, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 255
Pages: 738–739

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Claim of Dorothy Fishbane, Respondent, against Congress Operating Corporation, Doing Business as Congress Hotel, Alleged Employer, and New Amsterdam Casualty Company, Appellants. State Industrial Board, Respondent.

Opinion:
— -Appeal from an award of compensation made by the State Industrial Board pursuant to the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Law. Claimant was a dancer on the social and entertainment staff of the appellant-employer. It is contended that she was an employee of an independent contractor who had engaged to furMsh the entertainment rather than an employee of appellant. One Lou Taylor had entered into a written contract with the employer-appellant which stated that the appellant " hereby engages and employs the exclusive services oí the party of the second part, Lou Taylor and staff." There was also testimony by Taylor showing that he was master of ceremonies at the hotel of the appellant and agent of the appellant with authority to hire talent to entertain its guests. This, together with other testimony in the record, sustains the finding of the relation of employer and employee. Award unanimously affirmed, with costs to the State Industrial Board. Present — Hill, P. J., Rhodes, Crapser, Bliss and Heffeman, JJ.