Canning v. State

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

In this appeal from a pro forma judgment of the Superior Court (Waldo County), employee Clarence Canning asks the Law Court to reverse the Workers’ Compensation Commission’s dismissal, on the ground of res judicata, of two petitions brought by him for further compensation. Finding no error in the commissioner’s application of the principle of res judicata to the circumstances of this case, we deny the employee’s appeal.

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On April 30, 1974, Canning was driving a truck for his employer, the State Department of Transportation, when the truck became stuck in loose gravel.…