Court Opinion

ID: 9553615
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 19:32:48.030126+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:31:54.081340
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On Motion for Rehearing.
UDALL, Chief Justice.
Motion for rehearing was filed by the appellee upon the ground that the construction we gave to the pertinent sections of our Workmen’s Compensation Act and to article 18, section 3 of the constitution of Arizona, makes them repugnant both to the due process and the full faith and credit clauses of the federal constitution. Amend. 14; art. 4, § 1. These matters present no question not fully considered heretofore. Counsel appearing amicus curiae have, however, in addition challenged the correctness of the following statement in the closing part of our opinion as to commission’s order becoming res adjudícala, viz.:
“We hold that the commission had jurisdiction to enter the order in question here and since no timely direct attack was made thereon by defendant in the manner prescribed by section 56-914, the order became res judicata and was not subject to defendant’s collateral attack. The trial court erred in not accepting the conclusive showing made by the commission and in failing to enter judgment for it.”
Rehearing was granted and after a careful review of the whole'matter we are convinced that there is no merit to appellee’s motion. We concede however that our holding, supra, to the effect the commission’s order became res judicata was erroneous. The paragraph quoted above is therefore stricken from the opinion heretofore rendered and the following statement is substituted therefor, viz.:
*149“We hold that the commission had jurisdiction to enter the order in question here and since defendant did not directly attack the order by petitioning the commission for a hearing thereon in the manner prescribed by section 56-908, the order, under section 56-909, was ‘conclusively presumed to be just, reasonable, and lawful’ and was not subject to defendant’s collateral attack. The trial court erred in not accepting the conclusive showing made by the commission and in failing to enter judgment for it.”
In all other respects the original opinion is affirmed.
STANFORD, PHELPS, DE CONCINI, and LA PRADE, JJ., concur.