Malloy v. City of Chicago

Appellants filed a petition for mandamus in the superior court of Cook county against the city of Chicago and divers officials thereof, to compel the re-instatement of appellants to their positions in the police and fire departments of that city, from which they had been involuntarily retired through the Policemen and Firemen Retirement act, adopted June 19, 1935, (State Bar Stat. 1935, chap. 24, par. 725,) and an amendment to section 12 of the Civil Service act for cities adopted on the same day. State Bar Stat. 1935, chap. 24, par. 697.

Other than the usual jurisdictional averments of a…