People ex rel. Fosse v. Allman

Andrew M. Fosse filed a petition for mandamus in the circuit court of Cook county against the commissioner of police, the civil service commissioners and the comptroller of the City of Chicago to compel restoration to the position formerly held by him as a patrolman in the classified service of the department of police, from which he was discharged after a hearing before the Civil Service Commission. After the opinion of the Supreme Court in People ex rel. Elmore v. Allman, 382 Ill. 156, upon leave of court, he changed the form of action to certiorari and filed an amended complaint for a writ…