Mahoney v. Railroad Retirement Board

DUFFY, Circuit Judge.

We have before us two petitions for review. In Case No. 10467 we are asked to review a decision of the Appeals Council of the Railroad Retirement Board (hereinafter called Board), denying petitioner’s claim for a survivor’s annuity. In Case No. 10468 petitioner seeks a review of the decision of the Board which denied her petition for an annuity under the Railroad Retirement Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 228a et seq. (hereinafter called the Act).

Petitioner is the widow of Joseph David Mahoney, who died April 28, 1939. He had been employed by the Chicago and North Western Railway…