Bjork v. Board of Trustees of Firemen's Pension Fund

A proceeding in certiorari by plaintiff in error, petitioner below, to require defendant in error, respondent at trial, to retire him from the fire department of Denver, and to allow him a pension from the firemen’s pension fund. To judgment denying the writ, error is assigned.

It appears that May 1, 1913, petitioner was appointed as a fireman; that after a fire at St. Joseph’s Hospital, January 26, 1916, at which petitioner caught cold and became ill, he was granted indefinite leave of absence with pay; that May 1, 1916, he returned to duty; that March 1, 1919, petitioner, urging ill health,…