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

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

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9759025

## 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 Hutchinson
- **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

HUTCHINSON, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the result.
Considering the opportunities appellant has had and may still have to vest his pension in a proper manner, I must agree with Mr. Justice Larsen. Appellant has not demonstrated the kind of inequity which should induce us to relieve him from the effects of his reliance upon what appears to be his counsel’s mistake in applying a complex statute to the situation in which appellant found himself when the settlement agreement was negotiated.

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