Bohm v. State Employees' Retirement System

The defendant, the Board of Trustees of the State Employees’ Retirement System, appeals from a judgment of the circuit court of Sangamon County directing it to issue to the plaintiff a prior service certificate. As the cause is one in which the public revenue is involved and in which the State has a direct and substantial interest, the appeal is properly taken directly to this court.

On February 28, 1948, plaintiff filed his complaint in the circuit court, alleging that at said time “and for several years last past” he had been an employee in the office of the Department of Insurance of this…