People ex rel. De Boer v. Geary

Petitioners appeal from an order sustaining respondents’ motion to strike and dismiss petitioners’ first amended petition for mandamus to compel the respondents to require the places and positions of employment in the Chicago Belief Administration to be classified in the civil service under the City Civil Service Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1943, ch. 24%, pars. 39-77 [Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 23.040-23.079]) and dismissing the petition.

In February 1932 the Illinois Emergency Belief Commission was created to provide relief to residents of the State of Illinois who, by reason of unemployment or…