Heusmann v. Priest

SAMUEL A. DEW, Special Commissioner.

Otto Heusmann (hereinafter called the claimant) was a police officer of the City of St. Louis, Missouri. On February 23, 1961, he applied to the Board of Trustees of the Alternative Police Retirement System, in effect in that city, for retirement benefits allowable to retired policemen for accidental disability under Section 86.267(1) RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S. The Board denied the claim but voted to approve the lesser benefits to the claimant for ordinary disability under Section 86.260, if he should file an application on that basis. Thereafter, on March 1,…