Cheney v. City & County of San Francisco Employees Retirement System

The plaintiff, as administratrix of the estate of Thomas Walter Cheney, deceased, commenced an action to quiet title to a fund payable by the City and County of San Francisco out of the employees retirement system fund, pursuant to Ordinance No. 9134, effective January 8, 1932. The defendant, Florence Cheney, the mother of the decedent, filed a cross-complaint alleging that as the named beneficiary of the fund she was entitled to the whole thereof. The plaintiff alleged that the fund was the community property of the decedent and herself and pressed her right thereto as the surviving widow.…