State Ex Rel. Johnson v. Buchanan

I must dissent from the majority opinion.

Reasonable construction of the language of the statute must be that a member of the department for twenty-two years or longer is entitled to the benefits of the pension law. I can find nothing which evinces an intent on the part of the legislature to mean by the term “service” that the member be actually on duty for a total of twenty-two years. No purpose would be served in laboring the issue. I merely wish to point out that if the quotation in the majority opinion taken from State ex rel. Schaetzle v. Knowles (1911), 145 Wis. 523, 525, 130 N. W. 451,…