Cantrell v. Board of Trustees of the Employees' Retirement System

This case has taken some strange twists, turns, contortions and convolutions. I feel that explanation of some of these meanderings is in order.

Cantrell is an employee of the State Forestry Commission. The State of Georgia, through certain of its agencies, is seeking to force his involuntary retirement on the ground that he is not able properly to perform the duties of a forest ranger. But Cantrell does not wish to become a charge or ward of the state, as a pensioner, and stoutly maintains that he is able to render proper and acceptable service as a forest ranger, and thereby earn his keep.

The…