State v. Lugar

LOWDERMILK, Presiding Judge.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

Plaintiffs-appellants Eugene E. Williams and Walter Davidson filed this class action for declaratory judgment, mandate, and damages to recover additional pension benefits for retired and disabled fire fighters and widows and next of kin of fire fighters of the City of Indianapolis. Appellants were seeking the difference between the pension benefits already paid and those payable if the pension base had been calculated (a) including the amount of the clothing allowance, and (b) using appellants’ definition of “a fully paid first class fireman”…