PEOPLE EX REL. TRAPP v. TANNER

Gen. No. 46,740.

10 Ill. App.2d 155 (1956)

133 N.E.2d 526

People of State of Illinois ex rel. George A. Trapp et al., Appellees, v. Joseph H. Tanner, President of Board of Trustees of Village of Evergreen Park, Louis Bruinius et al., Trustees of Village of Evergreen Park, Edwin W. Sack, Treasurer of Village of Evergreen Park, Alan L. Strand et al., Members of Board of Fire and Police Commissioners of Evergreen Park, Louis Riddering, and Village of Evergreen Park, Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Second Division.

Released for publication June 11, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis F. Cainkar, McKinley & Price, and Peter T. Appel, all of Chicago, for appellants.

Michael F. Ryan, of Chicago, for appellees; Richard F. McPartlin, Jr., of Chicago, of counsel.


JUDGE SCHWARTZ delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from an order directing the issuance of a writ of mandamus requiring the defendants to reinstate relators to their positions as police officers of the village of Evergreen Park and entering judgment in favor of the relators for back salary in the sum of $3,472.53 each.

The three relators had held their positions for more than one year prior to March 17, 1954, the date on which a census was...

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