Hauri v. Batzel

The plaintiff, a police sergeant in the City of Waukegan, takes this appeal from an order dismissing his prayer for declaratory judgment and for an injunction, whereby he seeks to invalidate the current list of persons eligible for appointment to the office of lieutenant of police and to require the Civil Service Commission of Waukegan to develop a new examination from which to qualify candidates for that office. In his alternative prayer the plaintiff requests he be promoted to the rank of lieutenant, retroactive to the day of the promotional examinations with back pay for such rank from…