Chapman v. Sanders

WEIER, Presiding Judge.

This case arises on appeal from a judgment by the Circuit Court of St. Louis, affirming a decision of the Board of Trustees of The Alternate Police Retirement System of St. Louis, which denied plaintiff’s application for accidental disability retirement (§ 86.263, RSMo. 1969). We find the circuit court’s judgment free of error.

Plaintiff, James E. Chapman,1 was a member of the St. Louis Police Department from 1932 until 1971. During his thirty-eight and one-half years of service, the plaintiff incurred back and neck injuries of varying degrees of severity. The injuries…