People ex rel. Holdom v. Sweitzer

Pursuant to leave granted, the relator Jesse Holdom filed in this court his original petition for mandamus, praying that the writ be directed to the respondent, as county clerk of Cook county, commanding him to draw a warrant for the amount of salary to which the relator claimed to be entitled by reason of an act of the General Assembly of June 24, 1915, increasing the salaries of the judges of the circuit and superior courts of Cook county thereafter to be elected or who had been elected but whose terms of office had not yet commenced. The respondent answered the petitien and the relator…