Richards v. City of Geneva

The plaintiff was employed by defendant as patrolman between the 29th day of May, 1927, and the 15th day of March, 1935. On the latter date the plaintiff “ left the employ of defendant.” The complaint alleges that “ the defendant during each and every year of plaintiff’s said employment retained from plaintiff’s salary sums of money which said sums of money were retained by defendant as part of what is known as the police pension fund.”

In 1927 the defendant adopted a local law amending an. act formerly passed by the Legislature establishing the police pension fund of the city of Geneva. The…