STATE v. RIGGS

No. 37681.

313 P.2d 523 (1957)

STATE ex rel. B.G. Burg HUGHES, Plaintiff in Error, v. Clinton E. RIGGS, Walter Benton, Jack Estrada, A. Jackson Lawrence, City Auditor, and M.M. Shaver, City Treasurer, as Board of Trustees of the Police Pension and Retirement System of the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Defendants in Error.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

July 2, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton W. Hardy (of Hardy & Hardy), Tulsa, for plaintiff in error.

Darven L. Brown, City Atty., Luther P. Lane, Wilton W. Works, Charles E. Norman and William E. Franklin, Asst. City Attys., Tulsa, for defendants in error.


BLACKBIRD, Justice.

The question involved in this appeal is whether or not the Board of Trustees of the Police Pension and Retirement System of Tulsa, Oklahoma, may be required to order payment to a retired policeman eligible for retirement benefits, such benefits in an amount equal to 1/2 or fifty percent, of his average monthly salary during the last preceding year of his active service. Plaintiff in error, hereinafter...

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