Dempsey v. Alber

On May 3" 1930, the plaintiff, the widow of J. J. Dempsey, filed with defendants, as the board of trustees of the Policemen’s Pension Fund of the City of Des Moines, her application asking for the statutory pension due her as the widow of a member of the police department of said city. She alleges therein, that the said J. J. Dempsey was a police officer of said city in the Sanitary Division, and that his death occurred January 13" 1930, while in the service of said city; that her husband was a police officer in said city more than five years — his service having begun about May 1st, 1912, in…