PEOPLE EX REL. DRAGEL v. O'CONNOR

Gen. No. 46,828.

10 Ill. App.2d 196 (1956)

134 N.E.2d 624

People of State of Illinois ex rel. Daniel T. Dragel, Appellee, v. Timothy J. O'Connor, Commissioner of Police of City of Chicago; Stephen E. Hurley, President, Albert W. Williams, and John J. Ahern, Members of Civil Service Commission of City of Chicago, Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, First Division.

Released for publication June 12, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Melaniphy, Acting Corporation Counsel of City of Chicago, of Chicago, for appellants; L. Louis Karton, Head of Appeals and Review Division, Sydney R. Drebin, and Harry A. Cooper, Assistant Corporation Counsel, all of Chicago, of counsel.

Nathan Engelstein, of Chicago, for appellee.


JUDGE NIEMEYER delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendants, the Commissioner of Police and the members of the Civil Service Commission of the City of Chicago, appeal from a judgment ordering that a writ of mandamus issue forthwith directing and commanding them to correct the grades of the relator, hereinafter called plaintiff, in a police lieutenant's promotional examination by increasing his seniority and average...

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