Lawrence v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

This is a petition for a common-law writ of certiorari under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. Sections 7571, 7578, Code.

The error apparent urged is that an examination of the record will disclose that the trial court erred in rendering a judgment sustaining “defendant’s plea of res adjudicata,” and in holding that the rights vel non of the petitioners “were adjudicated in said former cause No. 70171 Circuit Court of Jefferson County,” and that, “unless the filing of the plea of res adjudicata by the respondent and the joinder of issue thereon dispensed with the necessity of proof of the…