People ex rel. Constant v. Board of Police Commissioners of the Police Department

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a fireman’s “tuberculosis of the respiratory system” was an injury where the statutory right to a pension was contingent upon the fireman being “injured in the line of duty and disabled through such injury”
• stating that the court must assume that the legislature purposely avoided repeating a definition from one statute in a later statute
• comparing common meaning of “injury” with more restrictive definition in earlier versions of Section 301(c)
• claimant’s disability caused by tuberculosis a compensable “injury” under Firemen’s Relief and Pension Fund Law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).