Legal Opinion
Coffman v. Bowen
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided September 23, 1987No. 87-1518PublishedCited by 595 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:
Hallie Coffman, as Executrix of Estate of Junior R. Coffman, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia (Kidd, J.), which affirmed the Secretary of Health and Human Services’ denial of Junior Coffman’s claim for Social Security disability benefits. For the reasons that follow, we reverse the district court’s judgment with instructions to remand to the Secretary for a computation and award of benefits.
On May 7, 1981, Junior Coffman, then fifty-six years of age, applied for disability benefits under…
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