Morris v. Derwinski

*262FARLEY, Associate Judge, filed the opinion of the Court, in which NEBEKER, Chief Judge, joined.

FARLEY, Associate Judge:

Appellant, John E. Morris, is appealing from a December 29, 1989, Board of Veterans’ Appeals (Board or BVA) decision upholding the denial of entitlement to an effective date earlier than November 7, 1985, for compensation based on service connection for tinea pedis. We hold that because appellant failed to appeal the disallowance of his 1962 claim for service connection for foot problems and abandoned his 1979 claim for service connection for foot problems, the BVA did not…