Carleton v. Board of Police Pension Fund Commissioners

Citations

• 115 Wash. 572
• 197 P. 925
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 1070

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations (81-1, 86)—Employees-—Pensions and Benefit Funds—Powers of Commission—Review -by Courts. In certiorari proceedings to review the action of a board of police pension fund commissioners in denying an application for a pension, the superior court, under Rem. Code, §§ 1009, 1010, has no power to receive original evidence and make findings thereon, its jurisdiction to review the proceedings of the board as an inferior tribunal being limited to the record of such proceedings.</p> <p>Same. Where a board of police pension fund commissioners is vested with jurisdiction to grant or deny pensions under Rem. Code, §§ 8078-8089, upon the taking of testimony in the same manner as courts of record, it has no power, in determining an application for a pension, to refuse to receive testimony and act upon the board members’ personal knowledge of the facts.</p>