Davis v. Principi

ORDER

In a panel opinion dated November 19, 1999, Davis v. West, 13 Vet.App. 178 (1999), the Court affirmed the March 1997 and April 1998 decisions of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (Board) which denied the appellant’s claim for service connection of the veteran’s death from cardiorespira-tory failure due to lung cancer and gastrointestinal bleeding; and denied service connection for of the veterans’ cause of death due to cigarette smoking. The Court held that the cigarette smoking claim was not well grounded under 38 U.S.C. § 5107(a) as it then existed. The appellant subsequently appealed,…