Legal Opinion

Kavanagh v. Board of Police Pension Fund Commissioners

California Supreme Court

Decided August 24, 1901No. S.F. No. 2435PublishedCited by 38 opinions

The facts are stated in the opinion. Franklin K. Lane, City Attorney, and William I. Brobeck, Assistant City Attorney, for Appellant.

1Opinion of the Court

HAYNES, C.

— Appeal from a judgment awarding the plaintiff a peremptory writ of mandate requiring the defendant to pay her' the sum of one thousand dollars from a fund created by ’an act passed in 1889, entitled “An act to create a police relief, health, and life insurance and pension fund.” (Stats. 1889, p. 56.) The appeal is from the judgment rendered for the plaintiff upon the failure of defendant to answer after its demurrer to the third amended complaint was overruled.

Plaintiff is the widow of J. H. Kavanagh, deceased. Said Kavanagh was appointed and sworn as a member of the police…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Pennie v. ReisSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
  2. Pennie v. ReisCalifornia Supreme Court · 1889

3Cited by38 opinions

  1. Kern v. City of Long BeachCalifornia Supreme Court · 1947
  2. Klench v. Board of Pension Fund CommissionersCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1926
  3. Packer v. Board of RetirementCalifornia Supreme Court · 1950
  4. Aitken v. RocheCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1920
  5. Terry v. City of BerkeleyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1953

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