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Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of the City of Milwaukee, and George H. Sprague, Both Plaintiffs Individually and as Representative of a Class Consisting of City of Milwaukee Police Officers Hired Prior to 1948 Who Participated as Members of the Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund System, and Ruth Ackmann, Gilbert C. Armbruster, Phyllis C. Bailey, Robert Baker, John W. Balcerak, Vladimir v. Barak, Elizabeth Barnes, Hildegarde Barg, Ethel G. Bartelt, Theresa Bartl, Alphonse P. Bauer, Dolores Baumann, Samuel Bay, Eugene W. Bebo, Esther B. Beck, Raymond J. Bednarek, Harold F. Behling, Virginia Behrendt, Violet Behrens, Franz Belot, Allen H. Bence, Howard C. Bentz, Ruth L. Berg, Gustav C. Bergemann, Leona Bett, Leona Bevsek, Agnes M. Beyer, Elsie v. Bilty, Richard W. Bohmer, Margaret M. Booton, Leocadia Borkowicz, Adele Brasile, Mildred Breidenbach, Harold A. Breier, Harold Breitlow, Elizabeth A. Brelsford, Hazel Brown, Ralph J. Brown, Mildred A. Bruss, Florence A. Budich, Evelyn Buege, Andrew Busalacchi, Edward F. Domask, Ann Doro, Mariann Dorow, John Dotski, Betty J. Drake, Anna J. Dunham, Harry E. Dunn, Jr., Mardella B. Eckhardt, Raymond A. Ehmke, Margaret M. Eichman, Vera M. Eichstaedt, Edmund H. Eigenfeld, Virginia Einem, Milton A. Engbring, Leone Erfert, William Ericsson, Chester R. Esch, Lucille Evans, Clara S. Evenson, Eileen Evica, Ruth Fabich, Isabelle C. Faubel, Dolores L. Feilen, Mary Ann Feilen, Florence T. Filipiak, Irene M. Fischer, Julia M. Fisher, Sylvia Freismuth, Florence Freund, Dorothy Frischmann, Glyn Fuglesang, Ruth Gaertner, John O. Galler, Ethel Galligan, Hermine Garms, Florence A. Gelhar, Marianne Gilbert, Florence Girard, Elsie Gleisner, Virginia J. Glembin, Marvin R. Godfried, Frances G. Goehle, Norma Goehlen, Tobias J. Golembiewski, Sylvia Gorniak, John W. Grantz, Henrietta Granum, Rosemary Greinke, Theresa F. Gust, Estelle Guttowski, Mary Guzinski, Laverne J. Guzman, Stanley Gwiazdowski, Louis J. Habel, Dorothy L. Haensgen, Genevieve Hanley, Dora I. Harris, Ewald J. Hartmann, Marie Heibler, Hulda E. Heidelberg, Rose M. Hein, Walter D. Heller, Esther Helm, Mary Helz, Edmund M. Hemmen, Edwin F. Henke, Emilie C. Henrich, Rachel Hensler, Harold J. Hermann, Frances M. Herold, Rachelle Heyse, Herbert L. Hinstorff, Stella Hoffmann, Gertrude A. Horsch, Winifred Hubbard, Donald W. Huffer, Lorraine Huml, Edward W. Ihlenfeld, Gregory F. Isermann, Charles E. Jaeck, Ann Jaeger, Ronald Jaeger, Leroy A. Jahnke, Alvina Jakubiak, Robert H. Jamrozy, John A. Jarvella, Bruno J. Jedrzejewski, Lucille M. Jefferies, Chester B. Jelinski, Howard L. Jennrich, William S. Jens, Earl M. Jenson, Helen C. Jeske, Dolores M. Johnson, Edgar R. Jones, Frances H. Julien, Edmund L. Jurkowski, Edwin W. Justen, Leone Kahne, Norma Karpinski, Chester R. Kasinski, Ervin F. Kasprzak, Marion v. Kassow, Henry R. Kasza, Eva Katsekes, John Kenzoria, Bertha J. Kieckhefer, Evelyn A. Kind, Bernice King, Theresa Kirsch, Ruth D. Klann, Casimir Klapczynski, Wilbur H. Klasen, Frank Klein, William J. Klippel, Otto Knapke, Dorothy E. Knueppel, Doris Knuth, Cecelia F. Koch, Gladys Koenig, Leo Koenig, Robert W. Koepp, Sara M. Koepp, Lyle W. Kohn, Doris I. Komperda, Edward Kondracki, Estelle Konz, Leo Kopecki, Mary J. Kopsar, Stanley A. Korbar, Mercedes Kottke, Arthur H. Kranich, Vernell Krasnan, Rudolph E. Krause, Arthur G. Krebs, Louise Kremsreiter, Helen M. Kresnicka, Dorothy M. Kropkat, Norman L. Kruse, Edward M. Kubiak, Henry J. Kubiak, Gladys H. Kuehnel, Ruth W. Kuhn, Harry J. Kuhr, Ann Kurek, Richard Kurowski, Angeline C. Kuszewski, Peter J. Kuzniewski, Stephen Kwasniewski, Mary T. Kwiatkowski, Phillip L. LaPorte, Lucille G. Laabs, Ervin C. Landowski, Pearl Lange, Gladys Lauby, Evalyn Lavann, Florence O. Lavin, Walter Lazowski, Fritz Lehto, Hazel Lemke, Mary Lepak, Ruth E. Lewin, Dorothy Liebscher, Hildagard Liederbach, Ralph E. Lietz, Irma Lindemann, Arlene I. Lund, Luella Lund, Ethel C. Maass, Alois MacHnik, Stephen C. Magenheim, Harriet M. Mahlberg, William J. Mann, Clarence Mantei, Evelyn D. Mantz, Ferdinand J. Meyer, Theron A. Meyer, Beatrice Michalzik, Joseph A. Michuda, Emil F. Milo, Eleanore E. Miotke, Joseph J. Miszewski, Theodore B. Mizak, Gordon Moll, Alexia M. Morawetz, Gloria H. Morrell, Ben Morrow, Bernice Mozach, George Muehlbauer, Lauretta Muenchow, Gladys Multhauf, Olive Murray, Edith Nagy, Joyce D. Nauertz, Frank Nawrocki, Bessie Neff, Dorothy Nelson, Eleanore Nennig, George A. Nielsen, Richard Niemann, Dolores Nimmer, Estelle M. Obst, Robert J. O’Connor, Ruth E. Ohde, Allen W. Oldenburg, Florence M. Olson, Irene Opolak, Regina J. Oppmann, Margaret Orlick, Martha Ostermeyer, Joseph Pagliano, Anthony J. Pakulski, Lawrence J. Papke, John Papp, Genevieve Pares, Jeanette E. Petermann, Marie Petersdorff, Caroline Pfeil, Tony H. Pike, Grace A. Pittenger, Marina Plant, Clara L. Plate, Selma Plinska, John Podlesnik, Josephine Pogorelc, Richard T. Polsen, Cecelia L. Popper, Anthony Primozich, Evelyn Quandt, Howard E. Radtke, Lillie E. Raiter, Greta Rasmussen, Raymond P. Raths, Myron R. Ratkowski, Lambert F. Rehorst, Harold J. Reinelt, Minnie Cox Reiter, Mary H. Reitz, Howard A. Ritzman, Kenneth F. Roberts, Robert L. Roepke, Peter Rokich, Dorothy M. Roubik, Mary Rowe, Mary S. Ruehle, Bernice Rutkowski, Helen G. Rybka, Gladys C. Salapa, William G. Schendel, Betty Fay Schiefelbein, Dorothy F. Schmid, Helmuth G. Schmidt, Jack E. Schmitt, Freda Schneider, Gertrude M. Schneider, Irene Schoknecht, Clara M. Schramm, Earl W. Schroeder, Lillian Schultz, Harley Schwertfeger, Alma Seelow, Howard R. Senn, Annette E. Shaffer, Florence Sigg, Richard F. Sinski, Esther Slottke, Raymond L. Sokol, Peter Sokop, Harold Sommerfield, Theodore R. Sonju, Mary Sorgi, Anice M. Spees, Zanana Spencer, Katie Spende, George H. Sprague, Jerome J. Springer, Stanley St. Onge, Mary E. Stark, Marion W. Stephen, Harriet Stolz, Esther D. Stout, Ethel L. Strachota, Mary A. Stroede, Mary A. Strzyzewski, Karl R. Stuhmer, Isabelle Surges, Michael Sworske, Jack C. Sylvester, Florence Szczepanski, Marie Teevan, Elsie Tellefson, Mary A. Tesch, Clara Tesmer, Gertrude Tieffenbach, Earl H. Tietyen, Dorothy H. Tietyn, Evelyn J. Todryk, Margaret Torcivia, Leonard Trinastic, Helen Ulatowski, Veronica Ullenberg, Roy v. Ullius, Regina R. Urbanek, Dorcas E. Vlcansky, Grace Voeks, Andrew H. Voss, Ben J. Wacker, Charles O. Waedekin, Jeanette E. Wahlen, John F. Walenta, Eleanor Walters, Clara Waterhouse, Ruth Weber, Gerda M. Weidner, Frank Weis, Maude W. Wellauer, June v. Wheeler, Agnes White, Louis Wiesmueller, Antola Wilburn, Kenneth A. Wille, Melvin L. Wingert, Mabel E. Winkelmann, Janet Winter, Edna M. Wissing, Richard Wissmueller, Antoinette Witt, Josephine Wittig, Ralph W. Wobszal, Frances J. Wolf, Anne Wolke, August Yanke, Estelle Zakrzewski, Norman Zastrow, Harold F. Zemlicka, Ruth M. Zenda, Evelyn Zepecki, Alice Ziemann and Ruth L. Zimdars, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. City of Milwaukee, Defendant-Respondent