Di Dio v. Board of Trustees of the Milwaukee Public School Teachers' Annuity & Retirement Fund

In this case, as in many others, when you define precisely the question asked, you suggest the answer to be given.

Appellant sees the issue presented as: Whether a 1955 beneficiary designation by decedent under the then existing annuity and retirement system is an effective disposition of death benefits under an entirely new and distinct retirement system, enacted in 1957.

Appellant contends that the legislature did not establish another lane of traffic to an existing highway. It created an entirely new and completely separate highway. Those, like Robert E. Freidel, who elected to drive on the…