Kelley v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board

The Contributory Retirement Appeal Board, after hearing, on motion of the Boston Retirement Board (intervener and appellant), dismissed the appeal of the petitioner under G. L. c. 32, § 16, from the decision of the Boston Retirement Board on December 28,1956, denying her application for accidental disability retirement. The ground for dismissing the appeal was that, as was established at the hearing, a medical panel had not certified that the disability was service connected. This was ruled a condition precedent to retirement under G. L. c. 32, § 7. On a petition to the Superior Court for'…