Harling v. Board of Commissioners of Police Insurance & Annuity Fund of the State of South Carolina

Mr. Associate Justice Tayeor

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court:

This appeal comes by way of the Court of Common Pleas from Edgefield County where the plaintiff brought action based upon the defendant’s refusal to pay plaintiff’s claim for certain disability benefits under an Act approved March 17, 1937, 40 St. at Large, page 295, and known as “An Act to Create a Board of Police Commissioners to Provide Revenue or a Source of Revenue for the Purpose of Paying Insurance and Annuity Benefits to the Peace Officers of the State of South Carolina.”

The appellant refused to pay such claimed…