Venet v. Teachers' Retirement System

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Andrew Tyler, J.), entered January 24, 1989, which denied and dismissed petitioner’s CPLR article 78 petition seeking to annul respondents’ determination, dated on or about December 16, 1987, to pay the decedent’s retirement death benefits to Jerrold Segal, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The decedent, a school teacher in the New York City school system, died at age 50 after 25 years of service as a teacher. Shortly after his appointment in 1972 to a new position at John Jay High School, he executed a designation of beneficiary form naming Jerrold…