Anfinsen Plastic Molding Co. v. Konen

This appeal from a judgment dismissing a complaint essentially questions whether the matters which the plaintiff Anfinsen Plastic Molding Co., Inc. (Anfinsen), sought to litigate had been adjudicated by a previous case decided in this court. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. v. Anfinsen Plastic Molding Co., 47 Ill. App. 3d 146 (1977).

Briefly, in the earlier case Anfinsen claimed that a workmen’s compensation policy issued by Aetna Life & Casualty Insurance Co., Inc. (Aetna), to it was a three-year policy which the insurance company wrongfully canceled when Anfinsen refused to pay an additional charge…