Maryland Casualty Company v. Pitman

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The controlling question in this case is whether the evidence on the last hearing showed that Pitman’s physical condition had improved since the award of July 21, 1943; and the burden of showing such a change was upon the defendants. The previous awards were conclusive as to all the facts of the case, except as to a change in Pitman’s physical condition subsequently to the award of July 21, 1943. Rhindress v. Atlantic Steel Co., 71 Ga. App. 898 (32 S. E. 2d, 554).

On the hearing now under review, the evidence was somewhat conflicting. One physician…