People v. City of Chicago

Mr. Presiding Justice Waterman

delivered the opinion of the court.

Petitioner is one of those, who, holding at the time the civil service law went into operation in this city, one of the offices coming under the terms of said law, and his name for a time having been certified by the civil service commissioners to the comptroller and by him to the city treasurer, and he for a while paid his salary as such officer, insists that thereby he became an officer, who, under the terms of the civil service law, could not be removed without charges and a hearing, in accordance with the civil service act. '