Slevin v. Board of Police Fund Commissioners

Citations

• 123 Cal. 130
• 55 P. 785
• 1898 Cal. LEXIS 996

Syllabus

<p>Statutory Construction — Police Insurance Fund—Death “from Natural Causes”—Railroad Accident.— Under section 7 of the act of March 4, 1889, providing for the payment of one thousand dollars from the police insurance fund to the widow of a policeman, who shall after ten years of service die “from natural causes,” the widow of a policeman who is killed in a railroad accident is not entitled to such payment. Death of a person “from natural causes” imports that the person who died therefrom was not killed, or did not die through external violence or human agency, but that the death occurred from disease, or from the unassisted operation of natural causes.</p>