# Wright v. Allegheny County Retirement Board

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · June 6, 1957 · 390 Pa. 75

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6257465

## Case

- **Full name:** Wright v. Allegheny County Retirement Board
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** June 6, 1957
- **Citations:** 390 Pa. 75; 134 A.2d 231; 1957 Pa. LEXIS 264
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Musmanno
- **Judges:** Arnold, Bell, Chidsey, Cohen, Copien, Jones, Musmanno
- **Cited by:** 47 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a provision which was adopted after an employee's rights had vested but before employee retired could not lawfully be applied, as the employee's rights were "vested and unqualified" under the previously existing law and "could not be qualified or altered" by a sub…
- holding that public employee who had been separated involuntarily from employment was entitled to "retirement” benefits

## Opinion text

Dissenting Opinion by
Mr. Justice Musmanno:
I dissent on the learned, comprehensive, and authoritative argument of the able Judge Alpern who wrote the opinion for the Court below.

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