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TORVIK v. POLICE & FIREMEN'S RET. & RELIEF BD.

No. 13550.

406 A.2d 1264 (1979)

Karl B. TORVIK, Petitioner, v. POLICE AND FIREMEN'S RETIREMENT AND RELIEF BOARD, Respondent.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 8, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ken M. Gozur, Washington, D. C., for petitioner. Andrew C. Biscula, Washington, D. C., was on brief for petitioner.

Margaret L. Hines, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom Louis P. Robbins, Acting Corp. Counsel and Richard W. Barton, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on brief, for respondent.

Before GALLAGHER and FERREN, Associate Judges, and HOOD, Chief Judge, Retired.

PER CURIAM:

Petitioner, a member of the Metropolitan Police Department since 1961, was injured while on duty in 1977, when his scooter collided with a motor vehicle. He was taken to a hospital and there it was ascertained that he had sustained, in addition to numerous contusions, a ruptured spleen and a fracture of the greater trochanter of the right femur. The spleen was removed by surgery and the fractured femur was treated without surgery or a cast.

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