PEOPLE EX REL. HOGAN v. HOWARTH

Gen. No. 10,032.

8 Ill. App.2d 514 (1956)

132 N.E.2d 381

People of State of Illinois ex rel. Joseph H. Hogan et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Nelson O. Howarth, Mayor, Frank E. Shaw et al., Members of Civil Service Commission of City of Springfield, Illinois, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Third District.

Released for publication March 1, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl T. Meyer, City Attorney, and Ines C. Hoffmann, Corporation Counsel, both of Springfield, for defendants-appellants.

Londrigan & Londrigan, of Springfield, for plaintiffs-appellees; Thomas B. Kennedy, of Peoria, of counsel.


PRESIDING JUSTICE HIBBS delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiffs, officers in the police department of the City of Springfield, Illinois, filed their second amended and supplemental petition for mandamus in the Circuit Court of Sangamon County on January 18, 1955 to compel the mayor of that city and its Civil Service Commission to carry out certain provisions of the Civil Service Act of Cities (Chap. 24 1/2, Pars. 39 to 77a, Ill. Rev. Stat. 1953 [Jones Ill....

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