PUBLIC EMP. RETIREMENT ASS'N v. NICHOLS

Nos. 79SC154, 79SC173.

615 P.2d 657 (1980)

PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION, Carl S. Wilkerson, as Chairman of the Public Employees Retirement Association, and Scott Nichols, Petitioner, v. Charlotte NICHOLS, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

August 11, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., David W. Robbins, Deputy Atty. Gen., Edward G. Donovan, Sol. Gen., Nathan B. Coats, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for petitioners Public Emp. Retirement Ass'n and Carl S. Wilkerson.

Trott, Kunstle & Hughes, Howard Kunstle, Colorado Springs, for petitioner Scott Nichols.

Brauer, Simons & Buescher, P. C., Walter C. Brauer III, Denver, for respondent.


LEE, Justice.

We granted certiorari to review the decision of the court of appeals in Nichols v. PERA, 42 Colo.App. 302, 596 P.2d 406 (1979). We now reverse.

The parties stipulated to the facts. William J. Nichols was employed by the City of Colorado Springs at the time of his death in January 1976, and was a member of the Public Employees' Retirement Association (PERA). Nichols...

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