Carlisle v. Try-Me Bottling Co.

SAMFORD, Judge.

This is a petition by complaint in a suit under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Code, § 7534 et seq.) to review a judgment of nonsuit induced by a ruling of the circuit court on demurrer holding that this suit could not be maintained because of a prior final judgment in a suit between the same parties on the same cause of action. The details of the two suits and prior judgment are fully set out in brief of petitioner, which is hereby adopted as the statement of facts and which appear in the report of the case.

The judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction is the final word…