Gagne v. Village of LaGrange

This appeal by Robert J. Gagne (plaintiff), a police officer of the Village of LaGrange, challenges the granting of defendant’s motion to strike his complaint for declaratory judgment. In that complaint, plaintiff disputed a reduction in his salary and requested both reinstatement of his former salary and injunctive relief from a threatened further reduction in salary.

Plaintiff filed a one-count complaint entitled “Complaint for Declaratory Judgment,” alleging it was “a case of actual controversy” brought under Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 110, par. 57.1, that portion oí the Civil Practice Act…