People Ex Rel. Kennedy v. Hurley

This is an appeal from an order entered June 28, 1951 quashing a return to a writ of certiorari and directing the restoration of relator to his position as a police officer of the City of Chicago. The sole basis for the order was that respondents had not returned a transcript of the evidence. That transcript, according to respondents’ certification, had been lost in the period of eleven years intervening between the time of the discharge and the trial.

In April 1940 charges were filed with the Civil Service Commission against relator by the Commissioner of Police of the City of Chicago.…