Patry v. Board of Trustees

The principal issue in this case is the construction of the provisions of a city’s home rule ordinance governing the calculation of the pension to which a retiring chief of the fire department of the city’s first taxation district is entitled. The plaintiffs, John Patry and others, taxpayers and employees of the first fire taxation district of the city of West Haven with an interest in the “Firemen’s Pension Fund,” brought an action to enjoin the defendant, Board of Trustees, Firemen’s Pension Fund of West Haven, Connecticut, from using the pension fund to pay a retirement pension to Joseph…