FRACTION v. BOWEN

No. 85-1696.

787 F.2d 451 (1986)

Willie T. FRACTION, Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 3, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leffel Gentry, Little Rock, Ark., argued, for appellant; Alan J. Nussbaum, Little Rock, Ark., rebuttal.

Julie Simpson, Baltimore, Md., for appellee.

Before McMILLIAN, JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges, and MURPHY, District Judge.


DIANA E. MURPHY, District Judge.

Willie T. Fraction appeals from a final judgment in favor of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary), who denied Fraction's application for disability insurance benefits. For the reasons discussed below, we reverse and remand.

Fraction was born in 1932 and had eight or nine years of education. He has worked all his life as a laborer, often holding two jobs at a time. During the relevant period, he worked as a...

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