SCHOCK v. Chappell

This is an action by appellants for a declaratory judgment to determine whether appellee is entitled to be placed upon the pension roll of the South Bend Police Pension Fund and to receive and be paid the widow’s allowance under said fund during her life while unmarried, and from a judgment for appellee this appeal is prosecuted.

Appellee bases her claim upon the fact that she is the widow of one Joseph Chappell who joined the South Bend police force in November, 1898, and retired in November, 1920. On September 30, 1922, while a widower, he married appellee who was not his former wife. He…