FREEMAN v. RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

No. 13663.

192 F.2d 51 (1951)

FREEMAN v. RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

November 2, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis L. Scott, Savannah, Ga., for petitioner.

Myles F. Gibbons, General Counsel, David B. Schreiber, Assoc. Gen. Counsel, Railroad Retirement Board, Chicago, Ill. (Louis Turner and Ben Diamond, Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for respondent.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and HOLMES and STRUM, Circuit Judges.


STRUM, Circuit Judge.

Claiming to be the widow of Rufus Freeman, deceased, a completely insured railroad employee under the Railroad Retirement Act, 45 U.S.C.A., as amended July 31, 1946, petitioner Penny Freeman here seeks reversal of a decision of the Railroad Retirement Board which denied her widow's benefits under said Act, but awarded a child's annuity to each of four children of a reputed common law marriage between...

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