STATE EX REL. STROM. v. City of Seattle

Appellant sought by mandamus to compel the Seattle firemen’s pension board to award a pension. The trial court denied the writ, and this appeal follows. Only questions of law are presented, for there are no assignments of error directed as to any finding of fact, and they are accepted as verities.

The findings disclose that the appellant was a member of the Seattle fire department from January 1, 1929, until his discharge July 8,1954, when he was forty-nine years of age. A prior pension application upon the claim of twenty-five years of service was denied because such service lacked forty-two…