Donahue v. Board of Trustees

Thomas Donahue filed a petition for mandamus in the circuit court of Carroll county, Illinois, in which the appellees were made the respondents. He prayed that a writ of mandamus should be issued compelling the respondents to pay to him a police pension out of the police pension fund in the City of Savanna, Illinois. The court sustained a demurrer to the petition. The petitioner elected to stand by his bill, and now brings the case to this court on an appeal.

Donahue was a policeman in the City of Savanna, and had been such from the first part of May, 1899 to the 5th day of June, 1923. He…