PEOPLE EX REL. JONES v. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

Gen. No. 47,210.

17 Ill. App.2d 36 (1958)

149 N.E.2d 487

People of State of Illinois, ex rel. Saul J. Jones, Appellee, v. Civil Service Commission, William A. Lee et al., Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, First Division.

Released for publication May 6, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Melaniphy, Corporation Counsel of City of Chicago (Sydney R. Drebin, and Claude E. Whitaker, Assistant Corporation Counsel, and Robert J. Collins, Special Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel) for defendants-appellants.

George Dorman Carry, for plaintiff-appellee.


JUSTICE McCORMICK delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a mandamus action whereby plaintiff seeks restoration to a civil service eligible list for patrolman in the police department of the city of Chicago and certification to the said position. Plaintiff's name had been stricken from the eligible list by the Civil Service Commission after a hearing, because of his bad character, dissolute habits and immoral conduct...

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