Wilke v. City of Chicago
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles M. Walker, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1917.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice O’Connor
delivered the opinion of the court.
Adolph Wilke filed a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the Trustees of the Firemen’s Pension Fund of the City of Chicago to enroll his name as one of the pensioners, and asked that the respondents be ordered to pay him out of the fund $37.50 monthly. To the petition the respondents filed a general demurrer, which was overruled. They elected to stand by their demurrer, and an order was entered awarding the writ as prayed for. An' appeal was prayed and allowed to this court, but was not perfected.
Afterwards certain persons…
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- O'Connor v. Board of TrusteesAppellate Court of Illinois · 1910
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