Hickey v. Pittsburgh Pension Board

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Musmanno,

On May 10, 1910, Thomas W. Hickey, being then less than 28 years of age, entered the employment of the City of Pittsburgh. Five years later the Legisla*302ture of Pennsylvania enacted a law, Section 3 of which reads: “Every person now or hereafter employed by the said cities, as herein provided, if any, of the age of sixty years and upwards, who shall have been so employed for a period of twenty years or more, shall, upon application to the board of pensions herein created, be retired from service, and shall during the remainder of his or her life receive the…