# Watrel v. Com., Dept. of Educ.

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · December 11, 1986 · 513 Pa. 61

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9759023

## Case

- **Full name:** Albert A. WATREL, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Appellee
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** December 11, 1986
- **Citations:** 513 Pa. 61; 518 A.2d 1158; 1986 Pa. LEXIS 964
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Nix
- **Judges:** Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, McDermott, Papadakos, Hutchinson
- **Cited by:** 17 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that an agreement between an employer and employee cannot extend or alter what the employee is legally entitled to receive under the Retirement Code

## Opinion text

NIX, Chief Justice,
concurring.
I am disturbed by the possible implication that the Commonwealth can avoid its promises by employing as a shield *71 a bureaucratic maze. One agency of the Commonwealth should not be permitted to deny any legitimate commitments by another agency of that same body.
However, here I am satisfied that the record is clear that there was no deception, misstatement of authority or even reliance by appellant. Under those circumstances, I am constrained to concur in the result reached by the majority.

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