People ex rel. Carroll v. Durkin

Plaintiff filed his petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the Director of the Department of Labor of the State of Illinois and certain other State officers and employees to reinstate him as a State civil service employee to his duties as a deputy factory inspector. The demurrer of defendants to the petition was overruled and they stood by their demurrer. Thereupon a judgment was entered in accordance with the prayer of the petition.

The petition alleges that pursuant to section 4 of the “Act to regulate the civil service of the State of Illinois,” Cahill’s St. ch. 126a, 6, the civil…