Texas Municipal Retirement System v. Roark

PHILLIPS, Justice.

This suit was brought by Mrs. Ruth Roark, the appellee here, against the Texas Municipal Retirement System, appellant, on the theory that she was entitled to a retirement annuity from the Retirement System under the provisions of a statute enacted in 1963 (Chapter 223, Acts Regular Session, 58th Legislature) as an amendment to the Act governing the system (Article 6243h, Vernon’s Civil Statutes of Texas.) The amendment of 1963 is set out in Sec. VI, subsection 8, of Article 6243h, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St.

The case was tried before the court sitting without a jury and the…