{
  "id": 5409877,
  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. John D. Kavanaugh, Appellee, v. City of Chicago, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "People ex rel. Kavanaugh v. City of Chicago",
  "decision_date": "1917-04-18",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,990",
  "first_page": "406",
  "last_page": "407",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "205 Ill. App. 406"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
  "cites_to": [],
  "analysis": {
    "cardinality": 143,
    "char_count": 1468,
    "ocr_confidence": 0.54,
    "sha256": "195f1adf7285686984b8f29c90248f8dd0846cfdb79953053dc140f698a30a9f",
    "simhash": "1:a2968b92c821a498",
    "word_count": 246
  },
  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T17:46:37.056812+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
  },
  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. John D. Kavanaugh, Appellee, v. City of Chicago, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Taylor\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Taylor"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Samuel A. Ettelson, for appellant; Roy S. Gaskill, of counsel.",
      "Earl J. Walker, for appellee."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. John D. Kavanaugh, Appellee, v. City of Chicago, Appellant.\nGen. No. 21,990.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. John P. McGoobty, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1915.\nReversed and remanded with directions.\nOpinion filed April 18, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nPetition for writ of mandamus by the People of the State of Illinois on the relation of John D. Kavanaugh, petitioner, against the City of Chicago, respondent, for the purpose of having relator\u2019s name restored to the roster of lieutenants of the fire department. From a judgment awarding the writ, respondent appeals.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nCivil service, \u00a7 28 \u2014when demurrer to petition of mandamus on ground of laches is properly sustained. In mandamus proceedings against a city, brought by a lieutenant of the fire department to have his name restored to the roster from which it had been dropped, where the original petition, which was filed nearly nine years later, failed to state any facts excusing the delay in the filing of the petition, held that the demurrer to the petition on the ground of laches was improperly overruled.\nSamuel A. Ettelson, for appellant; Roy S. Gaskill, of counsel.\nEarl J. Walker, for appellee.\nSee niinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0406-01",
  "first_page_order": 434,
  "last_page_order": 435
}