People ex rel. Egan v. City of Chicago

The superior court of Cook county overruled a demurrer of the city of Chicago and its mayor and aldermen to a petition praying for a writ of mandamus requiring them to pass an additional appropriation ordinance for the payment of the salaries of twenty-four deputy bailiffs of the municipal court of Chicago, and upon their election to stand by their demurrer it entered a judgment awarding the writ, from which they appealed.

The municipal court of Chicago, now consisting of thirty-six judges elected in the city of Chicago, was created by an act of the legislature in 1905 under the authority of…