Teems v. American Mutual Liability Ins.

1. The industrial commission is authorized to review a former judgment rendered by it only when there has been “a change in condition.” Workmen’s compensation act, sec. 45 (Ga. L. 1920, p. 191). A judgment denying compensation is an adjudication against the claimant’s right to compensation upon any ground existing which the commission could, when rendering the judgment, have granted compensation, unless, since the rendition of the judgment, there has been “a change in condition.” Where, on a former hearing before the industrial commission, compensation from the date of the injury was denied…