Lenox v. City of Medford

The widow of a police captain of the city of Medford, who died on March 2, 1951, brought in a District Court this action of contract for instalments of an annuity for herself of $1,500 a year and of an annuity of $312 a year for their ten year old daughter, which instalments for nineteen weeks from October 16, 1951, to the date of the writ, February 21, 1952, amounted to $662.07.

General Laws (Ter. Ed.) c. 32, § 89A, inserted by St. 1948, c. 552, and as amended by St. 1950, c. 757, and St. 1951, c. 147, § 1, provides for the payment to the widow of a city employee of an annuity not exceeding…