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  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. James C. Bailey, Defendant in Error, v. City of Chicago et al., Plaintiffs in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People ex rel. Bailey v. City of Chicago",
  "decision_date": "1918-04-16",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 23,359",
  "first_page": "230",
  "last_page": "231",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. James C. Bailey, Defendant in Error, v. City of Chicago et al., Plaintiffs in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mb. Presiding Justice Barnes\ndelivered the opinion of the-court.",
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        "author": "Mb. Presiding Justice Barnes"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Samuel A. Ettelson, for plaintiffs in error; Boy S. Gaskill, of counsel.",
      "A. D. Gash and Clinton S. Bailey, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. James C. Bailey, Defendant in Error, v. City of Chicago et al., Plaintiffs in Error.\nGen. No. 23,359.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Edward M. Mangan, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1917.\nReversed.\nOpinion filed April 16, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nPetition by the People of the State of Illinois, on the relation of James 0. Bailey, against City of Chicago and others, respondents, for a writ of mandamus to compel respondents to place relator\u2019s name on the list of officers of the police department of the City of Chicago as a first-class detective sergeant of police.\" To reverse an order granting the writ, respondents prosecute this writ of error.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Civil service, \u00a7 2 \u2014when act cannot be invoiced fo compel restoration to office. The Civil Service Act (J. & A. V 1799 et seq.) protects from removal only those who have been examined and approved by the civil service commission and cannot be invoked to compel the restoration of one who was reduced from the rank of first-class detective sergeant of police to that of patrolman before the act went into effect.\n2. Civil service, \u00a7 28*\u2014when petition to compel restoration to higher rank demurrable on ground of laches. A demurrer should be sustained, on the ground of laches, to the petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the restoration of one to the rank of detective sergeant of police where the petitioner delayed 20 years and more in seeking reinstatement.\nSamuel A. Ettelson, for plaintiffs in error; Boy S. Gaskill, of counsel.\nA. D. Gash and Clinton S. Bailey, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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