People Ex Rel. Duffy v. Hurley

This is an appeal which in effect seeks to determine the validity of the 1947 amendments to section of the City Civil Service Act, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1947, chap. 24½, par. 49,) by which military credits were awarded to persons on promotional eligible lists of cities operating under the act. Appellee, Tracy Duffy, is a police sergeant in the city of Chicago who successfully passed the examinations for the position of police lieutenant in May, 1941. He was then placed number 128 on the promotional eligible list and by September 9, 1947, had progressed to number 9. On the latter date, as a result…