Brady v. City of New York

The petitioner, Mrs. Florence Brady, is the widow of Sergeant Terrence Brady who, at the time of his death, was a squad supervisor assigned to the 13th Detective Squad, Manhattan South, in New York City. He met his death when his car left the roadway of a bridge and fell into the waters of Jamaica Bay on the morning of January 19, 1963. His widow, in a letter to the respondent police pension board, requested *604that the board consider her application for accidental death benefits since, although she did not have all the facts surrounding her husband’s death, she believed he was on duty at the…