Brewton v. Civil Service Commission

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE DEMPSEY

delivered the opinion of the court.

The Civil Service Commission of the City of Chicago ordered the plaintiff discharged from his position as a janitor for the Chicago Public Library. He appealed under the Administrative Review Act (Ill Rev Stats 1965, c 110, § 264, et seq.) and the Circuit Court affirmed the commission’s order. In this further appeal his contentions are that the commission did not have jurisdiction to discharge him and that its findings were against the manifest weight of the evidence.

The plaintiff was employed by the library in April 1965. During…