Hughes v. State Social Security Commission
Citation | 128 S.W.2d 671 |
Decision Date | 01 May 1939 |
Docket Number | No. 6059.,6059. |
Parties | THE STATE SOCIAL SECURITY COMMISSION OF MISSOURI, APPELLANT, v. LUCY HUGHES, RESPONDENT. |
Court | Court of Appeal of Missouri (US) |
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Greene Count. — Hon. Guy D. Kirby, Judge.
AFFIRMED.
Roy McKittrick, Attorney General, and Aubrey R. Hammett, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.
This is an appeal from a decision of the Circuit Court restoring respondent to the old age assistance roll of Missouri as of the date she was stricken from the roll. The uncontroverted facts in this case seem to show that the respondent, Lucy Hughes, was formerly on the old age assistance roll of Missouri and was receiving $9 per month. On October 14, 1937, she was stricken from the roll. She requested a hearing before the State Commission, which was granted, and the State Commission affirmed the former decision, striking the respondent from the roll. An appeal was then taken to the Circuit Court of Greene County. A hearing was had and the court, on October 20, 1938, found that the respondent had been unjustly stricken from the roll and that she was entitled to receive assistance from the date she was stricken from the roll, October 14, 1937, and ordered that she be restored to the old age assistance roll as of that date, with back pay from October 14, 1937.
From this judgment an appeal to this court was had. The Attorney General has furnished us a brief on behalf of the appellant. The respondent has not seen fit to file a brief, although her attorney appeared and made oral argument.
In the first paragraph of the Attorney General's statement, we find this language:
In the very last paragraph of his argument, the Attorney General says:
"Therefore, appellant respectfully requests that this judgment be reversed and the cause be remanded with instructions to the lower court to enter up judgment for respondent as of the date judgment was rendered."
It seems that a determination of this case requires a construction of the State Social Security Act. [Laws of Missouri, 1937, page 467.] The particular question in this case seems to have never been passed on by the courts of this State. The admitted facts in this case show that the applicant had been placed on the roll as being entitled to compensation and that she was being paid benefits. This was presumably done under the provisions of section 15, page 475, Acts of 1937. Under the provision of this section, the State administrator, or some one designated by him, decided that the applicant was eligible for benefits and determined the date on which said benefits began. She was drawing benefits under this determination until on October 14, 1937, she was stricken from the roll and the benefits were cancelled, and payments stopped, and after that date she drew no more benefits. Section 16, page 475, of the Acts of 1937, provides that if any benefits are cancelled, the applicant may appeal to the State Commission which was done. The State Commission, on June 5, 1938, after a hearing, made the following awards:
Thereafter the applicant appealed to the Circuit Court of Greene County where on October 20, 1938, a judgment was rendered in favor of the applicant. The judgment in full is set out in the abstract. The part of such judgment complained of in this appeal is as follows:
The two points in the motion for new trial presented to the trial court were:
As we view it, the law in this case specifically provided for in section 16, page 475, Laws of 1937, is that if any benefits are cancelled, the applicant may appeal to the State Commission, and upon that appeal, "The State Commission shall determine all questions presented by the appeal." We are not furnished the evidence that was presented to the State Commission, but we may reasonably assume that one of the questions presented was as to whether the applicant should have been removed from the roll and her payments stopped on October 14, 1937. That was at least one of the issues presented by her...
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