ABBOTT v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Docket Nos. 23791, 23792, 23793, 23794, 23795, 23796, 23797.

178 Cal.App.2d 204 (1960)

3 Cal. Rptr. 127

RUTH ABBOTT et al., Appellants, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Respondents. EVA A. ADAMS et al., Appellants, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Respondents. MARGARET ABNEY, as Special Administratrix, etc., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Defendants and Appellants. CATHERINE M. BEHRNS, as Administratrix, etc., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Defendants and Appellants. ELIZABETH M. MASON et al., Appellants, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Respondents. [Two Cases.]

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

February 19, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Sperry for Appellants.

Roger Arnebergh, City Attorney, Bourke Jones and John J. Tully, Jr., Assistant City Attorneys, for Respondents.


SHINN, P.J.

By five actions, which were consolidated for trial, a number of retired members of the police and fire departments of the city of Los Angeles (Abney, Behrns), and a number of widows of retired members (Abbott, Adams, Mason), sought to establish and enforce rights to a pension computed upon a fluctuating rather than a fixed basis.

In Abbott v. City of Los Angeles,

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