Case Name: Before State Industrial Commission, Respondent. In the Matter of the Claim of Herbert Mandel, Respondent, for Compensation to Himself under the Workmen's Compensation Law, v. A. Steinhardt & Bro., Inc., Employer, and Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company, Insurance Carrier, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1916-06-30
Citations: 173 A.D. 515
Docket Number: 
Parties: Before State Industrial Commission, Respondent. In the Matter of the Claim of Herbert Mandel, Respondent, for Compensation to Himself under the Workmen’s Compensation Law, v. A. Steinhardt & Bro., Inc., Employer, and Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company, Insurance Carrier, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 173
Pages: 515–516

Head Matter:
Before State Industrial Commission, Respondent. In the Matter of the Claim of Herbert Mandel, Respondent, for Compensation to Himself under the Workmen’s Compensation Law, v. A. Steinhardt & Bro., Inc., Employer, and Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company, Insurance Carrier, Appellants.
Third Department,
June 30, 1916.
Workmen’s Compensation Law, section 3, group 33—hazardous employment — traveling salesman.
A traveling salesman who at the time he was injured in a public bus was engaged in his regular occupation of going from place to place for the purpose of selling goods, is not entitled to recover under the Workmen’s Compensation Law for though, under group 33 of section 3 of the statute, his employer was engaged in a hazardous employment, he was not so engaged.
Appeal by the defendants, A. Steinhardt & Bro., Inc., and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, made on the 21st day of December, 1915, granting to claimant six weeks’ compensation for an injury he received while riding in a public bus from White Plains to Port Chester.
Merwyn H. Nellis and Andrew J. Nellis, for the appellants.
Egburt E. Woodbury, Attorney-General [E. C. Aiken of counsel], and B. W. Bonynge, counsel for State Industrial Commission, for the respondents.

Opinion:
Howard, J.:
The claimant was a traveling salesman. His employer was engaged in the manufacture of leather and other fabric novelties in New York city. The claimant occasionally visited the factory to procure samples. He was injured while riding in a public bus from White Plains to Port Chester, and was at the time of the accident engaged in his regular occupation of going from place to place for the purpose of selling goods.
Under group 32 of section 2 of the Workmen's Compensation Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 67; Laws of 1914, chap. 41) the employer was engaged in a hazardous employment, but the claimant was not so engaged. The hazards incident to manufacturing leather goods in no manner menaced this claimant riding along on the highway in a bus with other passengers. In fact, the vicissitudes of the claimant as he journeyed from town to town were not in the remotest degree affected by the character of the business carried on by his employer; his perils were not increased, his safety not diminished. It is not sufficient under the statute for the employer to be engaged in a hazardous employment; the claimant must have been so engaged.
We have just recently passed upon this question in a case quite similar to this. (Matter of Sickles v. Ballston Refrigerating Storage Co., 171 App. Div. 108.) In view of the opinion written there it is unnecessary to make further comment here.
The award should be reversed and the matter remitted to the Commission for further consideration.
All concurred.
Award reversed and the matter remitted to the Commission for further consideration.