Longfellow v. City of Seattle
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Mackintosh-, J., entered January 21, 1913, dismissing an action for wrongful death, upon overruling a demurrer to the answer.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
The legislature of the state of Washington, at its session of 1909, enacted a statute empowering incorporated cities- and towns having a paid fire department to compensate firemen injured while in the performance of their duty, superannuated firemen, and the widow, children, and dependents of a fireman killed while in the performance of his duty, by a monthly payment in the form of a pension. The act provided that the fund from which the payments were to be made should be created in part by taxation and in part by *511a deduction of a “sum equal to one and one-half per centum of the monthly…
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