O'Connor v. Boston Retirement Board

Patrick J. Nolan, an employee of the city of Boston, retired in 1935, and elected to receive, in lieu of the retirement allowance provided by the Boston retirement system, a lesser retirement allowance payable through*472out life, with the provision that if he should die before he had received in payments the value of his retirement allowance as it was at the time of his retirement, the balance should be paid to such person having an insurable interest in his life as he should have “nominated by written designation duly acknowledged and filed with the retirement board,” and in default of such…