California Court of Appeal September 28, 1945, Civ. No. 14798 (Larson v. Board of Police and Fire Pension Commissioners)

FOX, J. pro term.

This is an appeal from a judgment ordering the issuance of a peremptory writ of mandate to compel the defendants to grant the plaintiff a pension.

The plaintiff is the surviving widow of Engebret Larson, a sergeant of the Long Beach Police Department, who was killed in an automobile accident on February 25, 1942, while *61performing the duties of a police officer.