People Ex Rel. Polen v. Hoehler

On September 2, 1947, the petitioner, Betty E. Polen, filed her petition for writ of mandamus in the superior court of Cook County in the name of the People against Cassius Poust, Director of the Department of Public Welfare, et al, requiring that she be reinstated and reassigned as an institutional worker at the Illinois Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Children’s School at Normal, Illinois, and for an order that she be paid her regular salary for the period she was illegally prevented from performing her duties. The defendants are the Director of the Department of Public Welfare, the Superintendent…