RIDGELY v. SECRETARY OF DEPT. OF HEALTH, ED. & WELF. OF U. S.

No. 72-2181.

475 F.2d 1222 (1973)

Ethel L. RIDGELY, Administratrix of the Estate of Susanna Hape, Appellee, v. SECRETARY OF the DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE OF the UNITED STATES of America, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 3, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Kopp, Atty. U. S. Department of Justice (Harlington Wood, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., George Beall, U. S. Atty., Walter H. Fleischer and Stanton R. Koppel, Attys., U. S. Department of Justice, on brief), for appellant.

Robert Barker Harrison, III, Baltimore, Md. (George W. White, Jr., and Buckmaster, White, Mindel & Clarke, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee.

Before CRAVEN, FIELD and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.


FIELD, Circuit Judge:

The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare appeals from an order of the district court which ruled that Mrs. Ethel L. Ridgely, Administratrix of her mother's estate, was entitled to judicial review of a decision of the Social Security Administration Appeals Council and, additionally, held that the hearing examiner's findings were not supported by substantial evidence.1

The decedent, Mrs. Hape, was hospitalized...

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