MACDONALD v. PARK RIDGE BD. OF TRUSTEES

No. 1-97-1102.

690 N.E.2d 636 (1998)

294 Ill. App.3d 379

228 Ill.Dec. 877

James Robert MacDONALD, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE PARK RIDGE POLICE PENSION FUND; Norman Pater, in his capacity as President of the Board of Trustees of the Park Ridge Police Pension Fund; Duane Mellema, in his capacity as Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Park Ridge Police Pension Fund; Robert Kristie, in his capacity as Vice President of the Park Ridge Police Pension Fund; Carl F. Brauweiler, in his capacity as Trustee of Park Ridge Police Pension Fund; and John Barrett, in his capacity as Trustee of the Park Ridge Police Pension Fund, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

January 15, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian A. Schroeder, Thomas F. McGuire & Associates, Ltd., Long Grove, for Defendants-Appellants.

Gerald J. Sullivan, Giambrone, Sullivan & Sullivan, Rolling Meadows, for Plaintiff-Appellee.


Justice SOUTH delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff's father was a retired police officer who received a retirement pension from defendants, The Board of Trustees of the Park Ridge Police Pension Fund (the Board). After plaintiff's father died, plaintiff applied to the Board for a survivor's disability pension, claiming that at the time of plaintiff's father's death, plaintiff was a dependent of his father due to a physical and/or mental disability. The Board...

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