People ex rel. Coleman v. Lipsky

On December 12, 1938, relator filed a petition in the circuit court of Cook county, praying that a writ of mandamus issue to compel the Board of Election Commissioners of Chicago and the Civil Service Commissioners of Chicago to cause offices, positions and places of employment with the election commissioners to be filled in accordance with the act to regulate the civil service of cities. The court sustained motions by the defendants to dismiss the petition. Delator elected to stand by the petition, which was accordingly dismissed, and judgment rendered against him, to reverse which this…