State Ex Rel. Bise v. Knox County

Dissenting Opinion.

The statute under consideration, chapter 143 of the Private Acts of 1925, provides, by mandatory language, that the county board of education of each county within the application of the statute shall pay out of the county school fund an annual pension to any teacher who has taught in the public schools of such county for thirty or more school years, and who is seventy years of age or over, the pension to be equal to two-thirds of the salary received by such teacher in his last year of service.

The act is retroactive in its application, including within its benefits teachers…