Chandler v. Municipal Employees Annuity & Benefit Fund

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE. SULLIVAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal under the Administrative Review Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 110, par. 264 et seq.) from an order of the circuit court which reversed a decision of defendant (hereafter called the Fund) denying plaintiff duty disability benefits.

It appears that plaintiff, a member of the Fund, was in the employ of the Chicago Board of Education as a window washer when, on June 11, 1974, he was injured in a work-related accident. He filed an application for benefits with the Fund in which he stated that he had injured his…