Russell v. Missouri State Employees' Retirement System

RIEDERER, Judge.

Missouri State Employees’ Retirement System (“MOSERS”) appeals from the trial court’s judgment declaring that § 476.530 1 is unambiguous and that Respondent should be paid retirement benefits based on the salary being paid to circuit judges in active service at the time his benefits were payable in 1995, rather than on the basis of the salary being paid to circuit judges at the time he resigned in 1986. Although we find that the meaning of the term “time of retirement” in § 476.530 is ambiguous, extrinsic evidence shows that the meaning of the term “time of retirement” in §…