Oster v. Police Board

This appeal is to review a judgment that reversed the decision of the Police Board of the City of Chicago by which it ordered Herbert Oster, the appellee, discharged from the Chicago Police Department. The dis-positive issue is whether manifest weight of the evidence supports the findings of fire Board that Oster, a police department sergeant, used his official position for personal gain.

On May 9, 1969, at approximately 10 P.M., a school teacher and his girlfriend were in his automobile on the North Avenue beach parking lot in Chicago. A flashlight was rapped on a window of the driver’s side.…