Botner v. State, Department of Administration, Division of Retirement

ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., Judge.

Botner appeals from an order of the Retirement Commission denying him line-of-duty disability retirement benefits under section 121.021(13), Florida Statutes (1979). His contention is that the stress of working as an elementary school teacher for the Dade County School Board contributed to his psychological difficulties, otherwise evidenced in various ways over the years, and ended in the breakdown that brought about his retirement.

There is evidence in the record from which the Commission might have found, as its order states, that appellant’s “mental illness was…