State Public Utilities Commission v. Early

The Public Utilities Commission, upon leave had, filed its original petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the State Civil Service Commission to cancel the certification of the respondent Albert N. Richardson and immediately thereafter to certify to the petitioner the name and address of the candidate standing highest upon the register of eligibles for the position of service engineer, in accordance with section io of the act of May n, 1905, as subsequently amended, entitled “An act to regulate the civil service of the State of Illinois,” approved May 11, 1905, in force November 1, 1905.

The…