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.
1DissentJustice Thomson
I am unable to concur in the foregoing opinion. The order of the trial court, directing that the writ of mandamus issue as prayed by the petitioner, contains among its findings of fact one to the. effect that the Board of Trustees of the Firemen’s Pension Fund had denied the petitioner’s right or claim to a pension, without giving him an opportunity of presenting his claim or in any manner investigating his right to a pension and without hearing any evidence of the petitioner or any one in his behalf.
The law under which the petitioner seeks a pension at the hands of the Board of.Trustees of…
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