Mullen v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari to correct an alleged error of the contributory retirement *642appeal board in deciding adversely to the petitioner on her appeal from a decision of the Shrewsbury retirement board denying her application for accidental death benefits resulting from the death of her husband George E. Mullen, late chief of the Shrewsbury fire department. The return of the appeal board contained a transcript of the evidence from which the following facts could have been found.

On the morning of December 24, 1953, the Shrewsbury fire station was notified by radio of a gas…