Flannelly v. Board of Trustees

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward Lehner, J.), entered August 9, 1999, which granted petitioner’s application to annul respondents’ denial of an accident disability pension by virtue of a tie vote of the Board of Trustees, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Petitioner’s trip and fall over a tangle of television and VCR wires in the women’s locker room of the police station where she worked, while performing a routine security inspection, was, as a matter of law, a service-related accident entitling her to an accident disability pension. The record shows that the wires were in…