Cord v. Coffin

delivered the opinion of the court.. This appeal is from a judgment of the superior court quashing the records of certain proceedings of the Civil Service Commission of the City of Chicago which showed a removal of appellee from the position of arc lamp trimmer which he held under the Civil Service Commission.

The chief question involved is whether the return to the writ of certiorari sufficiently shows a cause for the removal.

It is provided in section 12, ch. 24, Cahill’s Ill. St. 1921, ch. 24, ¶ 697, that no civil service employee “shall be removed or discharged except for cause, upon…