Gaines v. Shank

PITTS, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for the recovery of money appellant, Billy Jack Gaines, paid into the Policemen’s Pension Fund of the City of Dallas while he was serving the city as a policeman before he voluntarily resigned. The case was transferred to this Court from the Dallas Court of Civil Appeals as a result of the equalizátion of Court dockets of the Courts of Civil Appeals by the State Supreme Court and because of its nature such has been advanced for a hearing by us upon a motion of appellant with the parties to the suit agreeing in writing to waive oral argument in this Court.

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