Cook v. Employees Retirement System of Texas

RAY, Justice.

This is a suit to construe Article 6228f Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. concerning survivors benefits under the Employees Retirement System of Texas. Appellants (plaintiffs), Marlin D. Cook, Jr. for himself individually, and Joyce Cook (surviving widow of Lieutenant Marlin D. Cook, Sr.) as next friend for her minor children, Stephen C. Cook and Stanley G. Cook, brought suit against the Employees Retirement System of Texas and its board of trustees, appel-lees (defendants) seeking to have appellees pay her children monthly benefits until each child reaches the age of twenty-one years. The…