Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Schendel

Mr.'Justice Sutherland

delivered the opinion of the Court.

These cases grow out of an accident on the line of the railway company in Iowa, in which Hope was killed and Elder was injured under circumstances establishing the negligence of the railway company and its consequent-liability for damages. The defense in each case was that the controlling issue had become res judicata: In the Hope case, petitioner pleaded a final judgment, entered, under the Iowa Workmen’s Compensation Law, by an Iowa state court of record possessing general jurisdiction, and, in the Elder case, a decision made by a…