Jones v. Sun Oil Co.

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The judgment is one which essentially denies the plaintiff, now appellant, Hazel Jones, relief from a prior adjudication of the character of her title to a small tract of land. She has contended that the prior judgment is void, hence, that the rule of res judicata has no application. The basis of the alleged invalidity is that an attorney who had appeared in the case as her lawyer was not authorized to do so and that he had in fact represented antagonistic interests and parties.

The appellant and her sister, Mrs. Claire Dodson, were devised a certain 38 acres by their…