Police Pension Board for City of Tucson v. Denney

UDALL, Chief Justice.

This action, brought by a retired policeman, involves the constitutionality of an amendment to a Police Pension Act. The trial court invalidated one part of the amendment as being void as to plaintiff. This appeal followed.

There is no dispute as to the facts which, together with certain pertinent provisions of law, in substance are as follows: In the year 1933 Paul G. Denney, plaintiff-appellee (hereinafter termed plaintiff) became a member of the police department of the city of Tucson. Thereafter the legislature of Arizona adopted the Police Pension Act of 1937, Ch. 40,…