Strader v. Kansas Public Employees Retirement System

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hatcher, C.:

This appeal steins from a judgment of the district court to which an appeal had been taken from an order of the Board of Trustees of the Kansas Employees Retirement System denying appellant’s claim for permanent total disability benefits.

The basic facts are not in dispute.

The city of Lyons, Kansas, was a participating employer in the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System on September 9, 1965. On that date Harold J. Strader, appellant, was employed by the city of Lyons, Kansas, as a garbage collector at a salary of $350 per month. He was…