Montgomery v. Minneapolis Fire Department Relief Ass'n

Julius J. Olson, Justice.

This was a suit under our declaratory judgments act. Plaintiff prevailed, and defendant appeals from the resulting judgment.

The facts are shown by the pleadings and may be thus 'summarized :

From August 1, 1912, until March 1, 1917, plaintiff was regularly employed as one of the firemen of the Minneapolis Fire Department. He severed his connection with it on March 1, 1917, and shortly thereafter, on May 29, entered army service in World War I, from which he was honorably discharged April 21, 1919. For a period of some nine years after his discharge he was engaged in…