McCorkle v. McCorkle

The issue presented on this appeal is whether an order denying plaintiffs petition for certain extraordinary medical and hospital expenses constituted a bar to her subsequent petition for substantially the same expenses. Some months after a decree of divorce was entered in favor of plaintiff, she filed a petition pursuant to the decree requesting payment of extraordinary medical and hospital expenses. After a full hearing, the court denied the petition, and no appeal was taken from that order. Approximately sixty days later, plaintiff engaged new counsel and filed a second petition requesting…