Tripp v. Board of Fire & Police Pension Commissioners

Appellant prosecuted this proceeding in the superior court for a writ of mandamus compelling respondents to allow and pay appellant a pension as a disabled fireman of the city of Fresno. The petition alleged that appellant had been a regular member of the fire department from 1918 to 1927; that under the terms of the city charter and ordinance passed in pursuance of said charter appellant was entitled to a pension because his duties as a fireman exposed him to smallpox in the neighborhood of the firehouse to which he was assigned in 1924, and exposed him to influenza in 1925, and again in…