Legal Opinion
Bakenhus v. City of Seattle
Washington Supreme Court
Decided April 19, 1956No. 33406PublishedCited by 158 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRosellini, J.
This is an action by H. D. Bakenhus, a retired policeman, and his wife to compel the city of Seattle and the board of police pension fund commissioners of that city to pay him henceforth a pension of one hundred and eighty-five dollars a month and to recover judgment for the difference between one hundred and eighty-five dollars a month and the pension of one hundred and twenty-five dollars a month which he has been paid since his retirement on August 9, 1950. We shall refer to Mr. Bakenhus as the plaintiff.
When the plaintiff became a member of the Seattle police department in 1925, chapter…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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