Batchon's Case

This is the insurer’s appeal from a decree of the Superior Court recommitting the case to the Industrial Accident Board for a hearing. The board had ruled that the claim made was res judicata because it related to a period of disability and a heart condition theretofore “considered and passed upon by a single member, a reviewing board and the Superior Court,” and had dismissed the claim without hearing the case. The employee contends that a new cause of the injury is alleged and that the prior finding and proceedings did not foreclose his showing that his admitted heart condition arose from a…