Schussler v. Codd

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Okin, J.), dated September 17, 1981 vacating respondents’ (essentially the New York City Police Pension Fund, Article II) determination denying petitioner service-connected accident disability retirement and directing that petitioner be granted such service-connected accident disability retirement, is unanimously reversed, without costs, on the law, and the petition is dismissed. The petitioner had the burden of proving that his loss of hearing was caused by a line-of-duty “accident”. (Matter of Drayson v Board of Trustees of Police Pension Fund of…