RUSHING v. CITY OF BATON ROUGE

No. 96 CA 1601.

696 So.2d 648 (1997)

Gerrard E. RUSHING, et al. v. The CITY OF BATON ROUGE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

June 20, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd Falcon, Jr., Baton Rouge, for Plaintiffs—Appellees Gerrard E. Rushing, Glenn Helminger, James W. Edwards, Joseph R. Major, James Ruth, Charles D. Crawford and James H. Patin.

Dawn Guillot, Baton Rouge, for City of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish.

Before LOTTINGER, C.J., and FOIL, and FOGG, JJ.


FOGG, Judge.

The issue raised on appeal herein is whether the longevity benefits provided to firemen pursuant to LSA-R.S. 33:1992 B extend for a seventeen-year period or a twenty-year period. The trial court determined that those benefits continue for a twenty-year period. For the following reasons, we affirm.

The parties herein stipulated to the following facts:

1. On September 20, 1976 a suit was filed in the 19th Judicial District Court entitled...

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