Court Opinion

ID: 5817412
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 20:20:07.094246+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:43:02.301183
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Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed July 25, 1975, which disallowed claimant’s claim for death benefits. Decedent, aged 57, resided in Amsterdam, New York, and was employed by the New York State Thruway Authority as a toll collector. On September 29, 1971 at about 2:15 p.m., while traveling on the Thruway towards Exit 23, his collection station, he sustained fatal injuries. He was to report at his station some 25 miles away at 3:00 p.m. The board denied claimant benefits on the ground decedent’s death did not arise out of, nor in the course of, his employment. In urging reversal claimant relies heavily on the fact that decedent was on his way to work riding on the Thruway in uniform and as a fringe benefit of his employment possessed a "toll free pass”. In our view, there is substantial evidence in the record to sustain the board’s determination and we must affirm (Matter of Murphy v New York City Tr. Auth., 38 AD2d 346). Decision affirmed, without costs. Greenblott, J. P., Sweeney, Main, Larkin and Herlihy, JJ., concur.