Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Pension & Relief Fund v. City of New Orleans

TUCKER, Judge.

This case was consolidated with 207 So. 2d 168, handed down this day, because the basic question presented in each is the same, i. e., whether a mandamus will lie to compel the City of New Orleans to appropriate certain funds under LSA-R.S. 33:2117 which provides that the City annually appropriate an amount to supplement a cost of living increase for the Firemen’s Pension and Relief Fund.

The trial court held that the sole plaintiff in this case, the Board of Trustees of the Firemen’s Pension and Relief Fund of New Orleans, lacked the procedural capacity to bring this suit, from…