John Sergeant v. John W. Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

This is the second application for social security disability benefits by plaintiff-appellant. As disclosed by this record, appellant is a 44-year-old ex-coal miner, with a third grade education. His prior employment has consisted of farming, truck driving, coal loading, and seven months as an unskilled machine operator for a small supplier of National Cash Register. In 1960 he developed lung trouble and has done no work of any kind since then. He lives on a small plot of farmland near Hazard, Kentucky, with a wife and two children.

Appellant’s prior application for social security benefits,…