Mrs. Almena Willet Matthews v. Railroad Retirement Board

Under the provisions of 45 U.S.C.A. § 228k, Almena Matthews seeks to set aside the final decision of the Railroad Retirement Board denying her claim for a widow’s insurance annuity provided for.in 45 U.S.C.A. § 228e(a).

Almena and the deceased employee, Charlie Matthews, were married in the Parish of West Feliciana, Louisiana, in 1914 but separated in 1924. Charlie married Lottie Walker in 1943, who died in 1946; later he married Lucille Bolieu who was living with him as his wife when he died in 1969.

Almena argues that she and Charlie were never divorced, that any subsequent marriage of his…