Lyons v. Police Pension Board of Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. AdELOR J. Petit, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. ChiEL Justice Dunn
delivered the opinion of the court:
The appellant, Matilda Lyons, filed her bill in the circuit court of Cook county against the Police Pension Board of Chicago, setting forth that she is the widow ó.f a policeman of the city of Chicago and for several years has been receiving a pension as such widow under the act of the General Assembly known as the Police Pension Fund act; (Hurd’s Stat. 1911, p. 369;) that on October 19, 1911, Mary A. Murphy applied to the board for a pension by reason of her service for more than twenty years in the police department as a police matron…
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