Engstrom v. City of Seattle

Citations

• 92 Wash. 568
• 159 P. 816

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Civil Service — Injury to Employee-Pension. Under Seattle City Charter, art. 16, § 32, providing that any person in the service of the city under civil service who shall be disabled in the discharge of his duties shall receive full pay during such disability not to exceed thirty days and half pay not to exceed six months, the pension provided is a part of the consideration for the services of the employee, and the fact that the employee recovered damages from the person injuring him does not relieve the city from liability for the pension.</p> <p>Same. Such an employee is “disabled in the discharge of his duties” and so entitled to the pension, where he was in the service of the city and discharging his duties when he was injured by the negligence of some agency other than the agency of the city.</p>