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PRESTON v. CHICAGO

No. 195.

226 U.S. 447 (1913)

33 S.Ct. 177

57 L.Ed. 293

PRESTON v. CITY OF CHICAGO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 6, 1913.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John W. Beckwith and Mr. W.H. Sexton for the defendants in error, in support of motion to dismiss or affirm.

Mr. Allen B. Chilcoat and Mr. Stephen A. Day for the plaintiff in error, in opposition thereto.

Memorandum opinion, by direction of the court, by MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE.

Upon the assertion that he had been wrongfully dropped "from the pay roll of the policemen of the City of Chicago," plaintiff in error commenced proceedings in mandamus in the state court to compel the placing of his name upon the said pay rolls to the end that he might thereafter draw the pay alleged to be due him as a police patrolman "as the other police patrolmen in said city of...

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