PEOPLE EX REL. HEFFERNAN v. SMYKAL

Gen. No. 46,868.

13 Ill. App.2d 342 (1957)

142 N.E.2d 133

People ex rel. Heffernan, Appellee, v. Smykal, Acting Commissioner of the Department of Buildings, City of Chicago; Stephen E. Hurley, President; Albert W. Williams and John J. Ahern, Members of and constituting the Civil Service Commission of the City of Chicago; James H. Dillard, Comptroller of the City of Chicago; and David L. Hartigan, Acting Treasurer of the City of Chicago, Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Second Division.

Released for publication May 21, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Melaniphy, Corporation Counsel of the City of Chicago, for appellants; Louis Karton, Head of Appeals and Review Division, Sydney R. Drebin, and Robert J. Collins, Assistant Corporation counsel, of Chicago, of counsel.

Michael R. Ryan, of Chicago (Richard F. McPartlin, Jr., of counsel) for appellee.


JUDGE SCHWARTZ delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendants appeal from an order sustaining plaintiff's (relator's) motion for judgment on the pleadings and ordering the issuance of a writ of mandamus against defendants, commanding them to reinstate plaintiff immediately to his position as a building inspector in the classified service of the Department of Buildings of the city of Chicago and to be paid his back salary...

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