Meyer v. Board of Trustees of Firemen's Pension & Relief Fund for City of New Orleans

HIGGINS, Justice.

This is an action by a widow against the Board of Trustees of the Firemen’s Pension and Relief Fund for the City of New Orleans, in which she is seeking a pension in the sum of $15 per month from November 28, 1936, to the date of her death or until she remarries. This suit is based upon Section 12 of Act 43 of 1902, as amended by Act 27 of 1914, which reads, as follows:

“Section 12. Be it further enacted, etc., that if any member of said fire department shall, while responding to an alarm of fire or while working at or returning from a fire, be killed or receive injuries which…