Dailey v. City of Seattle

We are again concerned with what statute governs a policeman’s retirement rights.

Clyde V. Dailey was appointed to the Seattle police department January 1, 1929. When he retired on August 3, 1955, at age fifty-three, he was a supervising captain, a position he had held for more than eight years; his salary for more than a year preceding his. retirement had been $520 a month.

The board of trustees of the relief and pension fund of the Seattle police department took the position that the applicable act, governing his retirement, was Laws of 1955, chapter 69, p. 417.

Section 3 of that act [cf. RCW…