Olivier v. City of Fall River

This is a petition by ten taxable inhabitants of the respondent city under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 40, *377§ 53, to prevent the payment to one Mooney of a pension after his retirement from the service of the city. Mooney had been employed as a laborer for thirty-six years when in June, 1932, at the age of sixty-four, he suffered injuries arising out of and in the course of his employment. Under the workmen’s compensation act he was awarded compensation for two hundred sixty-eight weeks at the rate of $16.80 a week, which he has received. At the time of his injury he was entitled, under St. 1924, c.…