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KIPLEY v. ILLINOIS

Nos. 586, 601.

170 U.S. 182 (1898)

KIPLEY v. ILLINOIS. KIPLEY v. ILLINOIS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 18, 1898.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward C. Akin, attorney general of the State of Illinois, Mr. George W. Smith, Mr. Frank P. Blair and Mr. Murry Nelson, Jr., for the motion.

Mr. Charles S. Thornton opposing.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

The attorney general of Illinois filed in the Supreme Court of Illinois, at its June term 1897, an original petition against Joseph Kipley, superintendent of police of the city of Chicago, and Adolph Kraus, Dudley Winston and Hempstead Washburne, commissioners appointed under the act of the legislature of Illinois in force on and after March 20, 1895, entitled "An act to regulate the civil service of cities."...

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