Willie Mae Minefield, Widow of Lige Minefield v. Railroad Retirement Board

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a decision of the Railroad Retirement Board finding that the petitioner, Willie Mae Minefield, and her grandchild, Helen Marie Minefield, were not entitled to a widow’s current insurance annuity or a child’s insurance annuity under Section 5(b) and 5 (c), respectively, of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, as amended. 45 U.S.C.A. § 228e(b, c).

In order to be entitled to a widow’s current insurance annuity, the petitioner must have in her care, at the time of filing her application for the annuity, a child of the employee from whose employment she…