People ex rel. Walsh v. City of Chicago

The petitioner, People of the State of Illinois, on the relation of James Walsh, filed in the circuit court of Cook county a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the superintendent of police of the City of Chicago to notify the Chicago Civil Service Commission of vacancies to be filled in twenty-seven offices of sergeant of police, to compel the Civil Service Commission to certify to the superintendent of police twenty-seven names from an alleged eligible register posted in the office of the Civil Service Commission and to compel the superintendent of police to appoint the persons so…