COLO. SPRINGS FIRE FIGHTERS v. COLO. SPR.

No. 88SA228.

784 P.2d 766 (1989)

COLORADO SPRINGS FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION, LOCAL 5, Colorado Springs Police Protective Association, Colorado Springs City Employees Association, Carl Petry, Hurstle Stidham, Donald Krabbenhoft, Leonard Huscher, Leland Kinney, Dean Clapper, Robert Sawall, John Gordon, and Donald Johnson, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

December 18, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brauer & Buescher, P.C., Thomas B. Buescher, Denver, for Colorado Springs Fire Fighters Ass'n.

Sherman & Howard, Raymond M. Deeny and Theodore A. Olsen and James G. Colvin, II, City Atty. for Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, for City of Colorado Springs.


Justice ROVIRA delivered the Opinion of the Court.

In this class action lawsuit the appellant, the City of Colorado Springs (City), appeals the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs/appellees. The trial court held that a 1966 city ordinance which provided that the City would pay the health insurance premiums for retired city employees created a vested quasi-pension type benefit. It also found that the two ordinances subsequently adopted...

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