# Dickey v. Retirement Board

> California Supreme Court · April 26, 1976 · 16 Cal. 3d 745

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9595494

## Case

- **Full name:** RUSCEL DICKEY, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. RETIREMENT BOARD OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Defendant and Respondent; KENNETH COUEY, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. RETIREMENT BOARD OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Defendant and Respondent
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** April 26, 1976
- **Citations:** 16 Cal. 3d 745; 129 Cal. Rptr. 289; 548 P.2d 689; 41 Cal. Comp. Cases 975; 1976 Cal. LEXIS 256
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Clark
- **Judges:** Sullivan, Clark
- **Cited by:** 42 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9595494

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a right does not vest “but upon the happening of the contingency upon which” the right is conditioned

## Opinion text

CLARK, J
I dissent for the reasons set forth in my dissenting opinion in Harlow v. Carleson (1976) ante, pages 731, 739 [ 129 Cal.Rptr. 298 , 548 P.2d 698 ],
Respondent’s petition for a rehearing was denied May 26, 1976.

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