People Ex Rel. Rude v. County of LaSalle

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court for the Second District, whereby a judgment of the circuit court of LaSalle county was reversed. In that court a writ of mandamus had been awarded requiring the board of supervisors of LaSalle county to pay to the administratrix of a deceased blind person certain sums alleged to have been due to him as a pension, during his lifetime and unpaid at the time of his death. The case comes to our court by appeal on certificate of importance granted by the Appellate Court.

The facts, which were stipulated, were as follows: On September 30,…