Byrnes v. Retirement Board

Mr. Presiding Justice Friend

delivered the opinion of the court.

Flora E. Byrnes filed a petition in common law certiorari to review an order of the retirement board of the policemen’s annuity and benefit fund of the City of Chicago denying her application for compensation annuity. The case was tried by the court without a jury on the record returned by the respondent to the writ and resulted in a judgment quashing the record of its proceedings, from which respondent appeals.

There is no dispute as to the salient facts. The deceased husband of petitioner, Patrolman Frank A. Byrnes, entered the…