Ridgley v. Board of Trustees of State Institutions Teachers' Pension & Retirement Fund

The interpretation and constitutionality of section 16 of “An act to create and administer State Institutions Teachers’ Pension and Retirement Fund” as amended July 13, 1937? is involved in this appeal from the circuit court of Sangamon county. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1937, chap. 122, par. 630.) Section 16, prior to amendment in 1937, established a maximum pension of four hundred dollars per year for each teacher of fifty years or older who retired from service in State institutions after twenty-five years of teaching. The amendatory act provided that any such teacher who had taught for twenty-five…