Kelly v. Chicago Park District

Rehearing denied May 21, 1951. This case originated with a suit filed in the circuit court of Cook County by seventeen Chicago Park District employees who sought compensation from the park district for a period covering about seven and one-half years, during which they were wrongfully excluded from their respective positions as civil service employees. The trial court entered judgment for the plaintiffs in lesser amounts than claimed, whereupon both plaintiffs and defendant took an appeal to the Appellate Court for the First District. The latter court held that the plaintiffs were entitled to the full amounts claimed, with some minor exceptions, reversed the judgment of the circuit court and remanded the cause. Upon leave granted, the defendant has perfected an appeal to this court from the judgment of the Appellate Court.