Hughes v. Judges' Retirement Board

Retired Circuit Judges Sam Street Hughes and Marvin J. Salmon filed suit in the Court of Appeals, as an original proceeding under GCR 1963, 714, praying for a writ of mandamus to compel the defendant to increase their pension benefits under the Judges’ Retirement Act 1 in accordance with the 1974 amendment to the act. Judge Hughes became a member of the Judges’ Retirement System on April 19, 1957, the first day of his employment as an Ingham Circuit Judge. He retired from that office on January 1, 1973 and since that time has received an annuity as a beneficiary of the Judges’ Retirement…