Ryan v. City of Chicago

The plaintiff, alleging she was a tax-payer, filed in the superior court of Cook county her verified representative complaint in equity against the city of Chicago, the commissioner of police and the civil service commissioners of Chicago, by which she sought to enjoin the defendants from discharging from service, pursuant to authority granted to the defendants the commissioner of police and the civil service commissioners by an act referred to as the Policemen and Firemen Retirement act, (Laws of 1935, pp. 536, 537,) and an amendment to section 12 of the Civil Service act, (Laws of 1935, pp.…