William McDowell v. Elliott Richardson, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

This appeal is from an order of the District Court granting summary judgment in favor of the Secretary in a proceeding to review the denial of disability benefits under the Social Security Act. 42 U.S.C. § 423.

The appellant was born on July 18, 1915, completed nine grades of school, and was more or less regularly employed until 1967. The medical evidence demonstrated, and the Hearing Examiner of the Bureau of Hearings and Appeals, Social Security Administration, assumed for purposes of questioning the vocational expert, produced on the hearings, that the plaintiff-appellant was physically…