Grover v. Town of Manchester

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, the widow of a member of the police department of the defendant town of Manchester, from .a judgment rendered for the defendant after the trial court had sustained its demurrer to the plaintiff’s complaint.

The plaintiff’s husband died from heart disease while serving as a uniformed regular member of the Manchester police department and the plaintiff, his dependent at the time of his death, brought an action for compensation under the provisions of § 7-433c of the General Statutes, enacted as Public Act No. 524 of the Public Acts of 1971, which provides, in…