Armstrong v. City of Chicago

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Cook county, entered October 8, 1926, wherein the court after a hearing, dismissed complainants’ original bill (filed January 27, 1926) and supplemental bill (filed January 30, 1926) for want of equity. Complainants sought to enjoin the enforcement of certain rules, adopted by the board of education on December 9, 1925, and/known as the “Emeritus” rules, wherein it was provided inter alia that “hereafter no member of the teaching force shall be continued in class room or supervisory duties who shall be more than seventy years of age.” At…