PEOPLE EX REL. TRAPP v. TANNER

Gen. No. 47,248.

19 Ill. App.2d 138 (1958)

153 N.E.2d 246

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

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, First Division.

Released for publication October 23, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chino & Schultz, of Chicago, for respondents-appellants.

Michael F. Ryan, of Chicago (Richard F. McPartlin, Jr., of counsel) for petitioners-appellees.


JUSTICE SCHWARTZ delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from an order entered March 18, 1957, which adjudged the individual respondents (defendants) in contempt of court and ordered them committed to the county jail until they complied with a mandamus judgment order entered April 7, 1955, directing the reinstatement of petitioners (relators) as police officers of the Village of Evergreen Park, assigning

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