EPPS v. HARRIS

No. 78-2621.

624 F.2d 1267 (1980)

William C. EPPS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Patricia Roberts HARRIS, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 25, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Palmer, Crestview, Fla., for plaintiff-appellant.

Emory O. Williams, Jr., Thomas R. Santurri, Asst. U. S. Attys., Pensacola, Fla., for defendant-appellee.

Before JONES, GEE and REAVLEY, Circuit Judges.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

Fifty-two-year-old William C. Epps has been diagnosed by several physicians as suffering from, among other ailments, diabetes myelitis, gout, osteoarthritis and degenerative disc disease of the lumbar and cervical spine, obesity, costochondritis (chest wall pain), and hypertension. After serving in the military for 22 years, working during his last ten years in the air force first as a mechanical engineer and then as a supervisor of mechanical...

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