Yochim v. Board of Trustees

PRESIDING JUSTICE CAMPBELL

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, the Board of Trustees of the Public School Teachers’ Pension and Retirement Fund of Chicago, appeals from a decision of the circuit court reversing the finding of the Board of Trustees that the plaintiff’s husband, now deceased, was not mentally incompetent at the time he elected to receive a regular pension from the pension fund. The issues raised on appeal are: (1) whether the trial court applied the appropriate standard of review in its reversal of the administrative finding; and (2) whether section 17 — 123 of the…