Tolman v. Selectmen of Brookline

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari by the widow of James H. Tolman, a former police officer of Brookline, who alleges that there was error in the proceed*383ings of the respondent board of selectmen in that a pension voted to be paid to her as such widow was made effective from the date of the vote and not from the date of the death of James H. Tolman. From a judgment affirming the proceedings, the petitioner appealed.

These facts appear in the respondents’ return. James H. Tolman died on May 3, 1936. On February 18, 1938, the petitioner made application to the board of selectmen for an…