Nevada Public Employees Retirement Board v. Byrne

OPINION

By the Court,

Mowbray, C. J.:

The Nevada Public Employees’ Retirement Board appeals from the judgment of the district court, entered after trial to the court on an agreed statement of facts, ordering the Board to pay retirement benefits to William Byrne in accordance with the Board’s earlier representations as to the amounts of those benefits. Since the trial court properly found the Board to be equitably estopped from denying its earlier representations, we affirm.1

*278Between January, 1955 and October, 1975, Byrne dutifully served the state and the public, as an elected official for…