Mary M. Brockman v. Robert H. Finch, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

ELY, Circuit Judge.

The appellant sought disability benefits under sections 216(i) and 223 of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 416 (i), 423. Her first application was filed in December 1960, and she then claimed that she had become unable to work in July or August 1953, as a result of injuries which she had sustained more than twenty years before. After extended administrative proceedings, which included a hearing, it was finally determined administratively, on November 6, 1962, that the application should be rejected. Central to the decision was the fact that the appellant had actually…