Eddy v. People ex rel. Welter
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. O. Brown, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hand
This was an application in the circuit court of Cook county in the name of the People, upon the relation of Maria Welter, against the appellants, as trustees of the police pension fund of the city of Chicago, to coerce them to restore the relator’s name to the pension roll, from which the petition averred her name had been stricken without lawful authority by the appellants, and to require them to pay her, as beneficiary of her deceased husband, Dominick Welter, a pension. A general demurrer was filed to the petition, which was overruled, and the appellants having elected to stand by their…
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