Stacy v. Richardson

OPINION AND JUDGMENT

DALTON, Chief Judge.

This action involves an attempt to overturn the defendant’s denial of social security disability benefits. The claimant died after the institution of this suit and his Administratrix has been substituted as party plaintiff.

The claimant was born in 1922, attended school for seven years, and served in the Navy in World War II, receiving an honorable discharge. Since *937that time he worked principally as a brakeman in the coal mines. Although a thoracotomy and a lobectomy were performed on him in 1958, he returned to work and was employed until December,…