48 Ga. App. 305 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1934
“When the superior court, in reviewing the findings of the Industrial Commission [now the Department of Industrial Relations], recommits the controversy to the commission for further hearing or proceedings, it is essential that the judgment be accompanied by an opinion directing the attention of the commission to the precise errors to be cured or the precise deficiencies to be supplied upon a reconsideration of the case by the commission.” Austin Bridge Co. v. Whitmire, 31 Ga. App. 560 (3), 568 (121 S. E. 345); Ga. L. 1920, p. 167. Where on appeal the superior court recommits such a case to the Department of Industrial Relations for a further hearing, with specific instructions as to the scope and character of the new hearing, this judgment confines the department, upon another hearing of the case, to a determination
3. The former judgment of the superior court was likewise the law of the case against the claimant employee, in its award of attorney’s fees and doctor’s bills and its restriction upon the powers of the Department of Industrial Relations in further proceedings. It in effect approved the previous award of a $350 attorney’s fee and a $31 doctor’s bill. Tn remanding the cause to the department for
Judgment affirmed, with direction.