Causey

Facts

Appellant Vance D. Causey (herein appellant) was a police officer of the City of Los Angeles for 18 years. He sought a disability pension in 1978 because of depression and hypertension he claimed was work related and due to duty pressures. At the same time he also sought workers’ compensation benefits because of the same condition.

In an undated stipulation filed February 1, 1983, in the workers’ compensation matter, the City of Los Angeles, the employer of appellant, conceded that the disability was job related and on February 1, 1983, an award was signed and filed by the workers’ compensation appeals judge. The injury on which the workers’ compensation award was based was designated “hypertension and psyche.”

Concerning the disability pension application, respondent Board of Pension Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles (herein respondent) originally denied the request following a hearing held on February 1, 1979. Appellant filed a petition for writ of mandate, seeking a court order directing that respondent grant him a disability pension. On September 19, 1979, judgment was filed, ordering, inter alia, that respondent “set aside its decision denying…