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and dismiss a certain motion died by him in the ( rcuit Court o( Cook County whcr m he sought to have he answer of the University stri ken from the records In that case. (Pet., pp. 44, 45) In addition th* petition prays for a writ direct d against the Auditor of Public Accounts to issue and deliver certain salary Treasurer Johnson and Hodges and the University Retirement System of Illinois, which w a r r a n t s were duly certified for payment by the President and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois according to law. (Pet., p. 45) j Pleadings.

The pleadings consist of a petition and an answer. Pursuant to a motion made by petitioners to t r e a t the answer as a demurrer or a motion to strike in the nature thereof because it raised questions of law and tendered no issue of fact upon which the right of the petitioners to the writ prayed for depended, this pondent demurrer, or motion same ordered the issues closed. Inasmuch as the question then became one of the sufficiency of the petition, its allegations, material to the issue here, are treated under the heading of "Admitted Facts." Admitted Facts. While complete and correct picture of the University and its organization, indispensable to a correct understanding of the issues in this case, without recourse to the petition, we, nevertheless, tender the follow in summary of the facts admitted:

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