Ivan M. Hoffman v. John W. Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

MEHAFFY, Circuit Judge.

Claimant, Ivan M. Hoffman, a resident of Webster Groves, Missouri, sought social security benefits based upon self-employment earnings by reason of his own and his agent’s material participation in the production and management of production of farm commodities upon two farms he owned in Ringgold County, Iowa. The year involved is 1957 and the arrangements for operation of the two farms were in the form of written agreements with tenants, giving claimant complete managerial control over said farms.

The local office of the Social Security Administration denied the claim…