PEOPLE EX REL. FOLEY v. PRENDERGAST

Gen. No. 45,330.

345 Ill. App. 235 (1951)

102 N.E.2d 668

People of State of Illinois ex rel. John J. Foley, Appellee, v. John C. Prendergast, as Commissioner of Police of City of Chicago et al., Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied January 7, 1952.

Released for publication January 7, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

JOHN J. MORTIMER, Acting Corporation Counsel, of Chicago, for appellants; L. LOUIS KARTON, Head of Appeals and Review Division, and SYDNEY R. DREBIN, both of Chicago, of counsel.

MULCAHY, MURPHY & DIERINGER, of Chicago, for appellee; MICHAEL F. MULCAHY, and HENRY W. DIERINGER, both of Chicago, of counsel.


MR. JUSTICE NIEMEYER delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendants, the Commissioner of Police, members of the Civil Service Commission, Mayor, Treasurer, Comptroller and Clerk of the City of Chicago, appeal from a judgment in a mandamus proceeding ordering that a peremptory writ of mandamus issue herein directed to the members of the Civil Service Commission commanding them to forthwith certify to the Commissioner of Police the name and address of plaintiff John...

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