Cohrn

This is an appeal from a judgment granting to petitioner a writ of mandate against defendants, directing them to pay her the sum of $1,000 out of the police relief and pension fund.

The matter was determined in the lower court upon demurrer to respondent’s petition.

Edward Cohrn was appointed a policeman of the city and county of San Francisco in 1868. He was retired from active service in 1895 upon a pension as then provided by the general police pension law of 1889. He continued to draw said pension until his death, which- occurred in 1909 from natural causes.

Petitioner is the widow of said Edward Cohrn, and claims to be entitled to the sum of $1,000 under the provisions of section 7 of the act of the legislature of March 3, 1889 (Stats. 1889, p. 57), as amended in 1891. (Stats. 1891, p. 287.)

The present charter of the city and county of San Francisco went into effect on the first day of January, 1900, which was prior to the death of said Edward Cohrn. The charter contains a complete scheme for the pensioning of police officers, their widows and other dependents, and we have no doubt was intended to supersede and repeal, so far as the city and county of San Francisco was…