Court Opinion

ID: 9462885
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:52:44.330799+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:50.235759
License: Public Domain

WIDENER, Circuit Judge
(concurring and dissenting):
I concur in the opinion of the court for the reasons stated by Judge Bryan except in one small part.
I do not agree that the payments to the survivors made after death from the Railroad Retirement Fund should be credited against the disability payments from the Railroad Retirement Fund used in the computation of damages. I am of this opinion because the decedent paid into the Railroad Retirement Fund, see the current 26 U.S.C. § 3201 and its predecessors, and the benefits to his survivors seem to me, since he paid at least in part for them, to be analogous to the Veterans Administration insurance poli*562cy ruling found in United States v. Brooks, 176 F.2d 482, 486 (4 Cir. 1949).