Hauenstein v. New York State Employees' Retirement System

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered August 11, 1978 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding under CPLR article 78, to annul a determination of the State Comptroller. Before she began employment on June 16, 1975 as a general duty nurse at the F. J. Meyer Memorial Hospital, an institution subject to the supervision of the State Department of Health, petitioner’s wife initiated an application to become a member of the State Employees’ Retirement System. Although the application designating petitioner as her beneficiary was…