Rees v. Teachers' Retirement Board

The order appealed from should be affirmed. Each statute must be construed according to its particular language and purpose. The object of the Teachers’ Retirement Law was to place the board of retirement under the joint control of the board of education, the city administration and the teaching staff. It is common knowledge that when the proposed law was under discussion in 1917 the teachers criticised the law because they then claimed that the same placed the control of the board of retirement in the hands of the city administration. In answer to these criticisms, the president of the board…