People Ex Rel. Bourne v. Johnson

This cause reaches us as an allowed petition for leave to appeal from a judgment of the First District Appellate Court (48 Ill. App. 2d 307) affirming the action of the Cook County circuit court awarding a writ of mandamus to compel Chicago city officials to pay relator’s back salary accrued during a period subsequent to his wrongful discharge.

Relator was a civil service employee of the city of Chicago for about ten years, during which he incurred heavy indebtedness, apparently largely due to the serious illness and subsequent death of his wife. As a result of his failure to pay his debts he…