DRISCOLL v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Docket No. L.A. 28479.

67 Cal.2d 297 (1967)

431 P.2d 245

61 Cal. Rptr. 661

FAYE DRISCOLL et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

September 13, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Sperry and John L. Kaesman for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Roger Arnebergh, City Attorney, Bourke Jones, Weldon L. Weber and John J. Tully, Jr., Assistant City Attorneys, for Defendants and Appellants.

Stanley T. Tomlinson, City Attorney (Santa Barbara), J.F. Goux and Kenneth R. Nuss as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.


SULLIVAN, J.

We are called upon to review a declaratory judgment determining the past and future pension rights of certain widows of retired former members of the Los Angeles Police and Fire Departments. Plaintiff widows, except plaintiff Gussie A. Hand, appeal from adverse portions of the judgment which limit the recovery of each of them to unpaid pension benefits accruing within six months prior to the filing of a formal claim therefor and which deny to each of...

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