DELGADO v. BOWEN

Civ. No. 86-0054 (JAF).

651 F.Supp. 1320 (1987)

Julia DELGADO, Plaintiff, v. Otis R. BOWEN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

January 23, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beatriz Cajigas Jovet, San Juan, P.R., Carlos E. Ramos González, Legal Aid Clinic Interamerican University School of Law, for plaintiff.

Asst. U.S. Atty. Wanda Rubianes Collazo, San Juan, P.R., Daniel F. López Romo, U.S. Atty., for defendant.


OPINION AND ORDER

FUSTE, District Judge.

This case is before us on appeal from a decision of the Secretary of Health and Human Services denying widow's insurance benefits under the Social Security Act. The facts of the case are as follows:

Plaintiff and the wage earner lived together as man and wife for forty years, during which they had eleven children. Together they ran a small business until the wage earner became disabled in 1968. After that...

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