Etscheid v. Police Board of Chicago

This case comes up on appeal from a judgment order of the Superior Court which reversed an order of the Police Board of the City of Chicago, and from an order of the Superior Court denying the board’s subsequent motion to vacate the judgment order. Review was sought in the trial court under the Administrative Review Act (Ill Rev Stats 1961, c 110, §§ 264-279) of the board’s order discharging plaintiff Charles Etscheid from his position as a policeman and member of the Chicago Police Department because, as the board found, he had been guilty of conduct unbecoming a police officer.

Plaintiff had…