Kagann v. Board of Fire & Police Commissioners

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE RECHENMACHER

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff appeals from a declaratory judgment which adjudged that he was not entitled to “revert to, and be established in” the rank of captain in the Police Department of the Village of Woodridge (as plaintiff had requested in his letter dated November 19, 1971, resigning as chief of police), and dismissed plaintiff’s suit with prejudice. The trial court decided this case upon the complaint, the answer thereto and upon a stipulation of facts between the parties. Thus, the facts are not controverted.

On July 1, 1962,…