Carleton v. Board of Police Pension Fund Commissioners
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Frater, J., entered October 28,1920, upon findings in favor of plaintiff, in an action to obtain a pension, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
The statute (Rem. Code, § 8078) authorizes the creation of a board of police pension fund commissioners: Section 8080 creates and provides for the maintenance of a pension fund. Section 8084 provides that whenever a member of the police department of a city shall lose his life through violence while actually engaged in the performance of his duty as a police officer, his widow, etc., shall be entitled to a *573yearly pension of one-third of the amount of salary attached to the rank which such policeman held at the time of his death. Section 8085 provides that whenever a member of the police…
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