State ex rel. King v. Board of Trustees of the Fireman's Pension Fund

TRIMBLE, J. —

Certiorari issued from the circuit court of Jackson county, Missouri, to review the record of the Board of Trustees of the Firemen’s Pension Fund of Kansas City, wherein it refused to place upon the pension list of said Fund the names of the widow and minor children of Jesse King, deceased, who was or had been a member of the City Fire Department.

The return shows that the board refused to place the names on the Pension List “for the reason that *585Jesse King’s death resulted from injuries received in a fight in a saloon while off duty.” It seems that King had asked and had been…