(DOWNLOAD) "Haines v. Police Pension Board of City of Phoenix And Patricia Cochran" by Arizona Court of Appeals ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Haines v. Police Pension Board of City of Phoenix And Patricia Cochran
- Author : Arizona Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 09, 1986
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
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This case involves an appeal from summary judgment granted in favor of defendant-appellee City of Phoenix Police Pension Board (Board). George Haines, husband of plaintiff-appellant Viola M. Haines, served as a policeman with the Phoenix Police Department from 1926 until his retirement in 1947. He died in 1983 of natural causes. Haines retired under the terms of the Police Pension Act of 1937 (Act). Ariz.Code Ann. §Â§ 16-1801-22 (1939). Under its provisions, Mrs. Haines was not entitled to a widows pension upon her husbands death. See Ariz.Code Ann. § 16-1808(d) (1939). In 1952, the legislature amended the Act to provide that a surviving widow was entitled to receive a pension equal to two-thirds of the monthly pension paid to her spouse (if the spouse died from any cause after twenty years service). Ariz.Code Ann. § 16-1808(d) (Supp.1952). In this appeal, we must determine whether Mrs. Haines is entitled to the benefits of the 1952 amendment even though her husband retired in 1947.