Braun v. Municipal Employees' Retirement System

PONDER, Judge.

Plaintiff has appealed from the trial court’s upholding of the action of the Board of Trustees of the Municipal Retirement System of Louisiana which denied retirement for total and permanent disability.

The issues are: the test to be applied for disability; the scope of duty owed to plaintiff and the reasonableness of the action of the Board of Trustees and the trial court.

We affirm.

Plaintiff, a police officer, was injured in the course and scope of his employment. An injury sustained to the same foot in earlier years made the condition worse. He was kept on the payroll for nine…