Armstrong v. City of Chicago

Appellants filed a bill in the circuit court of Cook county to enjoin the enforcement of a rule adopted by the board of education of the city of Chicago and known and designated as the emeritus rule. Appellants were principals and-teachers in the schools in the city of Chicago and aver in their bill that they had been so employed for a period of more than ten years next prior to the filing of the bill. The bill avers that appellants are each more than seventy years of age. They allege that without notice or trial, as required by law, they have been removed from their positions as. principals…