City of Chicago v. People ex rel. Gray
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding. The relator, Cobden G. Gray, a police patrolman, filed a petition for mandamus against appellants, in the superior court of Cook county, on May 19, 1902, to compel the city of Chicago and the general superintendent of police, O’Neill, to place petitioner’s name upon the roster of police patrolmen, from which it had been omitted and excluded by one Joseph Ripley, a former general superintendent of police of said city, and to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
The pleadings filed herein in response to the answer are denominated pleas both by the Appellate Court and the parties hereto. Court and counsel were led so to do, no doubt, by following the ancient nomenclature in mandamus. This is a common law action. The petition performs the office of the alternative writ; the answer, that of the return; and the succeeding pleading should be a common law replication, and under our statute should be designated as a replication. People v. Glann, 70 Ill. 232; People v. Crabb, 156 id. 155; Chicago Great Western Railway Co. v. People, 179 id. 441; People v.…
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