McDevitt v. Finn

delivered the opinion of ..the court.

In plaintiff’s amended petition for mandamus, filed March 30, 1927, against the three civil service commissioners of the city of Chicago, and A. A. Sprague, as commissioner of public works, he prayed that the writ issue, commanding the civil service commissioners to certify him “as the only person eligible for the third vacancy for the position of District Superintendent” of the water pipe extension division of the bureau of engineering, existing on October 28, 1925, and that the commissioner of public works “be directed to permit petitioner to have the…