Dillard v. City of Los Angeles

This is an appeal from a judgment denying a petition for a writ of mandate to compel the respondent city and the board of pension commissioners to place petitioner and her child on the pension rolls to which she claims she is entitled under the pension laws of the city by reason of her husband’s death. The facts are undisputed.

Petitioner’s husband, now deceased, was a regularly employed police officer of the city of Los Angeles. On the night of January 22, 1940, decedent, as a radio car patrolman, was on regular duty from 6 p. m. to 2 a. m.

At about 10:15 p. m. a suspect who was taken into…