CHESTNUT v. LODGE

Gen. No. 10,632.

62 Ill. App.2d 27 (1965)

210 N.E.2d 336

William J. Chestnut, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. William T. Lodge, Director, Department of Conservation of the State of Illinois, Maude Myers, Director, Department of Personnel of the State of Illinois, Michael J. Howlett, Auditor of the State of Illinois, and Francis Lorenz, Treasurer of the State of Illinois, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Rehearing denied and opinion modified October 1, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Clark, Attorney General, of Chicago (Richard A. Michael, John J. O'Toole and A. Zola Groves, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel), for appellants.

Giffin, Winning, Lindner & Newkirk, and Horsley, Vespa & Lott, all of Springfield (James M. Drake and G. William Horsley, of counsel), for appellees.


CRAVEN, J.

The circuit court of Sangamon County by its order in this mandamus and declaratory judgment proceedings ordered the plaintiffs restored to positions as Park Supervisor I and Park Supervisor II in the Department of Conservation from the date of August 21, 1961. The order further provided for the payment of certain back salaries, and as a declaratory judgment determined that the layoff of the plaintiffs as a result of job abolition was illegal and void and...

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