People ex rel. Comerford v. Miller

By leave of this court granted on the last day of the June term, the People, on the relation of Frank Comerford, filed this petition for a writ of mandamus. The relator claimed to have been legally elected judge of the circuit court of Cook county on June 2, 1924, to fill a vacancy; that there is money due him as salary from Cook county; that August W. Miller, respondent, is clerk of the circuit court of Cook county, and it is his duty to put relator’s name on the pay-roll of the judges of the circuit court but that he refuses to do so. Relator prays that the peremptory writ of mandamus…