KLAMM v. State of Indiana Ex Rel. Carlson

Relator-appellee Carlson, a retired policeman of Hammond, brought this mandate action against the defendants-appellants, as the Board of Trustees of the Police Pension Fund of the City of Hammond, to compel the Board to pay him an increased pension on a basis of 50 per cent, of the currently increasing salaries of active policemen, whereas the Board has paid him a pension of 50 per cent, of the lower salary in effect at the time he retired in 1943, and refused to pay the increase.

The trial court mandated appellants herein to pay this increased pension, and hence this appeal.

The question…