Davis v. West

HOLDAWAY, Judge:

The appellant, LaVeina C. Davis, widow of veteran Lloyd E. Davis, appeals from two Board of Veterans’ Appeals (Board or BVA) decisions. In the first decision, dated March 6, 1997, the Board denied the appellant’s claim for service connection of the veteran’s death from cardiorespiratory failure due to lung cancer and gastrointestinal bleeding. In November 1997, the Court granted the parties’ joint motion for remand and vacated that part of the Board’s decision that denied service connection for the veteran’s cause of death as a result of cigarette smoking and remanded that…