People ex rel. Brady v. Gregory

In these consolidated cases Claude J. Brady and eleven other plaintiffs each filed a separate petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the Civil Service Commission to^give them credit for military service so as to advance their standing on the eligible list for the position of sergeant in the police department of the City of Chicago. Defendants moved to strike each of the complaints and to dismiss the suits on the ground that plaintiffs’ military service had been rendered after they had taken the promotional examination for sergeant and their names had been posted on the eligible list for…