District Court, E.D. Louisiana August 12, 1959, No. 8560 (Varnado v. Flemming)

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

This petition for review of a decision by a referee in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Social Security Administration, is brought by a 58-year-old ex-truck driver for a beer company under 42 U.S.C.A. § 405(g).1

Varnado first complained of back pains in April 1956, was operated on twice, and had two discs removed from his’ lumbar spine.