People Ex Rel. Markee v. Barrett

The appellee, Maybel M. Markee, filed an amended complaint in the circuit court of Cook county against George F. Barrett, Attorney General of the State of Illinois, and the members of the State Civil Service Commission for a writ of mandamus. The prayer of the complaint was that she be ordered restored to her position of “senior stenographer appropriated for under the title of court reporter by the Sixty-second General Assembly of the State of lilinois.” She also asked that appellants be compelled to pay her the salary “lawfully appropriated therefor” from July 15, 1941, the date of her…