Legal Opinion

Coane v. Geary

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided January 11, 1939No. Gen. No. 40,134PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Hall

delivered the opinion of the court.

On June 10,1937, Joseph P. Coane filed a petition in the circuit court of Cook county in which he charged that the members of the Civil Service Commission of the city of Chicago, defendants, had, on February 3, 1937, unlawfully discharged him from his position as a police officer of that city, after a hearing before such commission. He prayed that writ of certiorari issue out of the circuit court, directed to such Civil Service Commission, requiring it to return to the court a true and correct transcript of the record of the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Joyce v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1905
  2. City of Chicago v. BullisAppellate Court of Illinois · 1905

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Nolting v. Civil Service CommissionAppellate Court of Illinois · 1955
  2. King v. PriestSupreme Court of Missouri · 1947
  3. Fraternal Order of Police v. Lansing Board of Police & Fire Com'rsMichigan Supreme Court · 1943
  4. Harrison v. CIVIL SERVICE COMM. OF CITY OF CHICAGOIllinois Supreme Court · 1953
  5. Harrison v. Civil Service CommissionIllinois Supreme Court · 1953

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