Hinman v. Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Relief & Pension Fund

This is an appeal from a judgment of the superior court, entered after review upon certi-orari, annulling an order of the board of trustees of the firemen’s relief and pension fund of the city of Seattle, which denied a disability pension to Harry C. Gifford, a member of the fire department who had become mentally incompetent.

Gifford, being an active member of the Seattle fire department, on or about November 11, 1936, after a service of nineteen years, became permanently insane, as the result of cerebral spinal syphilis, and was committed to the state hospital for the insane at Sedro…