Clark v. City of Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Flon. JESSE Holdom, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hand
This was a petition for a common law writ of certiorari, filed in the superior court of Cook county, to review the action of the civil service commission of the city of Chicago in removing William J. Clark from the police force of the city of Chicago. The writ was issued and served, and upon a return being filed the superior court quashed the writ and dismissed the petition, and the judgment of the superior court quashing the writ and dismissing the petition having been reversed by the Appellate Court for the First District, a further appeal has been prosecuted to this court.
The petitioner…
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