McColgan v. Board of Police Commissioners

The plaintiff applied to the trial court for a writ of mandamus to compel the defendant board to grant her a pension, to be paid out of the police relief and pension fund, as the surviving widow of James McColgan, deceased. The trial court granted the writ and from that judgment the defendant board has appealed and has brought up the judgment-roll only.

In her petition for a writ of mandamus the plaintiff alleged the official capacity of the defendants; that she is the widow of James McColgan, deceased; that the defendant board has the power to provide pensions to a surviving widow of a…