ATKINSON v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CHICAGO

Gen. No. 48,910.

44 Ill. App.2d 92 (1963)

194 N.E.2d 8

Eveleen W. Atkinson, et al., Plaintiff-Appellants, v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago, a Body Politic and Corporate, Benjamin C. Willis, General Superintendent of Schools, Dolores L. Sheehan, Earl E. Strayhorn and Reginald DuBois, Constituting the Civil Service Commission of the City of Chicago, Carl H. Chatters, Comptroller of the City of Chicago, and Edmund P. Curry, Treasurer of the City of Chicago, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Second Division.

October 15, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Ryan, of Chicago (Richard F. McPartlin, of counsel), for appellants.

John C. Melaniphy, Corporation Counsel, of Chicago (Sydney R. Drebin, Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel), for members of Civil Service Commission and other officials of the City of Chicago, certain appellees. James W. Coffey, of Chicago (Frank S. Righeimer, John T. Mehigan and Richard E. Girard, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.


MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE BURKE delivered the opinion of the court:

A second amended two count complaint (hereinafter called the complaint) brought by 50 plaintiffs employed as Civil Service school clerks in the Board of Education of the City of Chicago individually and as representatives of a class was dismissed on motion of the Board of Education and other defendants. The case was decided on the pleadings. The plaintiffs...

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