Kipley v. Luthardt

This is an appeal from the judgment of the circuit court of Cook county awarding a peremptory writ of mandamus against the appellant, as superintendent of police of the city of Chicago, commanding him, as such superintendent, to restore the appellee to the position in the department of police of the said city formerly "designated “chief clerk of the detective bureau” of the department, now designated “secretary to the chief of detectives,” the same being a subordinate position in the said department. The judgment was rendered upon the theory the tenure of office of the incumbent of the said…