Percy F. Hicks v. Arthur S. Flemming, U. S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

The claimant, Percy Hicks, appeals from a summary judgment affirming an administrative decision that denied his application for disability insurance benefits under the Social Security Act. The question presented is whether substantial evidence supports the determination that Hicks was not under a “disability” within the meaning of 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 416 (i) and 423. We affirm.

Hicks is fifty-five years old. He left school in the eighth grade at the age of fourteen and took a job in the merchant marine. He followed the sea for more than twenty years. In January 1945 he became…