South Chicago Community Hospital v. Industrial Commission

These two consolidated appeals arise out of workmen’s compensation cases in which the Industrial Commission, over objections by the employer, granted the claimants’ motions for an indefinite continuance of the hearings. To review this decision the employer sued out writs of certiorari in the circuit court of Cook County. The court dismissed the writs on the ground that the Commission’s orders were not final ones, and the first appeal (No. 41670) comes from this action of the circuit court.

The employer also filed a petition in the circuit court for a writ of mandamus to compel the members of…