Sullivan v. BOSTON RETIREMENT BOARD

This is a bill for declaratory relief under G. L. c. 231A in which the widow of the late sheriff of Suffolk County seeks to determine her pension rights under G. L. c. 32, § 58B. The case was heard in the Superior Court on a stipulation which we treat as a case stated. The trial judge reported the case without decision.

Subject to certain conditions not applicable here, a widow under G. L. c. 32, § 58B, as amended through St. 1958, c. 669, §§ 1, 2, is entitled to “an annual allowance consisting of two thirds of the actuarial equivalent to which ... ¡Tier husband] would have been entitled”…