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PEOPLE EX REL. BYRNES v. STANARD

Gen. Nos. 46,441, 46,518.

6 Ill. App.2d 441 (1955)

128 N.E.2d 658

People of State of Illinois ex rel. John C. Byrnes et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees; People of State of Illinois ex rel. Tony Johnson and Charles Maeys, Intervening Plaintiffs-Appellees; People of State of Illinois ex rel. John A. McNamara, Intervening Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Stillman J. Stanard, Director of Department of Agriculture of State of Illinois; Maude Myers et al., Members of Illinois State Civil Service Commission; Orville E. Hodge, Auditor of Public Accounts of State of Illinois; and Elmer J. Hoffman, Treasurer of State of Illinois, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, First Division.

Rehearing denied July 5, 1955.

Released for publication September 15, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Latham Castle, Attorney General of State of Illinois, of Chicago, for defendants-appellants; William C. Wines, Raymond S. Sarnow, and A. Zola Groves, Assistant Attorneys General, all of Chicago, of counsel.

Michael F. Ryan, of Chicago, for plaintiffs-appellees; Richard F. McPartlin, Jr., of Chicago, of counsel.

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE BURKE delivered the opinion of the court.

A complaint for mandamus was filed on September 21, 1953 by eight former incumbents in civil service posts in the Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois against the Director of that Department, the members of the Civil Service Commission, the Auditor of Public Accounts and the Treasurer to compel their restoration and the payment of unpaid back salaries. They maintain that their dismissals...

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