Jordan v. Metropolitan Sanitary District

This case presents the question of the constitutionality of the 1957 amendment to section 26 of the Chicago Sanitary District Employees’ and Trustees’ Annuity and Benefit Fund Act, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1957, chap. 42, par. 382.26,) and the validity of an amendment to rule 11.041 of the civil service board. The legislative amendment is here referred tO' as the enactment; the act in question, as the Annuity and Benefit Fund Act; and the rule, as the rule.

Plaintiffs, certain classified civil service employees of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago who have attained, or will shortly…