People ex rel. Corbett v. Allman

Mr. Presiding Justice Burke

delivered the opinion of the court.

On April 5, 1940, the relators filed their amended petition in the circuit court of Cook county for a writ of mandamus to compel the police commissioner and the members of the Civil Service Commission of the City of Chicago, to do whatever was necessary to have the relators certified and appointed to certain positions in the department of police. The case was tried by the court without a jury, resulting in a judgment awarding the writ, to reverse which this appeal is prosecuted.

The defendant, James P. Allman, is commissioner of…