Case Name: In the Matter of the Claim of Annie K. Harby, Respondent, v. Marwell Brothers, Inc., et al., Appellants. State Industrial Board, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1923-01-23
Citations: 235 N.Y. 504
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Claim of Annie K. Harby, Respondent, v. Marwell Brothers, Inc., et al., Appellants. State Industrial Board, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 235
Pages: 504–505

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Claim of Annie K. Harby, Respondent, v. Marwell Brothers, Inc., et al., Appellants. State Industrial Board, Respondent.
Workmen’s compensation — traveling salesman killed while on way from home to take car.to visit customers — accident arising out of and in course of employment.
Harby v. Marwell Brothers, Inc., 203 App. Div. 525, affirmed.
(Argued January 8, 1923;
decided January 23, 1923.)
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered November 28, 1922, affirming an award made under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. Claimant’s husband, a traveling salesman, working on commission, in the employ of defendant Harwell Brothers, Inc., wholesale grocers, was killed at a railway crossing while on the way from his home to take a car to a near by city for the purpose of visiting his customers and soliciting orders for his employer. Defendants objected that the accident did not arise out of and in the course of the employment. The Appellate Division held that a traveling man, working on commission, begins his work when he leaves his home, or the place where he lives or passes the night, to visit directly a customer; that he makes these trips to his customers directly under and in the course of his employment.
Jeremiah F. Connor for appellants.
Carl Sherman, Attorney-General (E. C. Aiken of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Hogan, Cardozo, Pound," McLaughlin, Crane and Andrews, JJ.