Bessette v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the City Court of Aurora; the Hon. Russell P. Goodwin, Judge, presiding. This is a prosecution, originally instituted against the plaintiff in error before a police magistrate or justice of the peace in the. city of Aurora, Kane county, to recover a penalty for failure by plaintiff in error to comply with the provisions of an act entitled “An act to insure the better education of practitioners of horse-shoeing, and to regulate the practice of horse-shoers in…
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Writ of Error to the City Court of Aurora; the Hon. Russell P. Goodwin, Judge, presiding. This is a prosecution, originally instituted against the plaintiff in error before a police magistrate or justice of the peace in the. city of Aurora, Kane county, to recover a penalty for failure by plaintiff in error to comply with the provisions of an act entitled “An act to insure the better education of practitioners of horse-shoeing, and to regulate the practice of horse-shoers in the State of Illinois,” approved June 11,1897. The trial before the magistrate or justice resulted in finding the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The principal question presented by this record, which arises out of the refusal of the court below to hold as law in the decision of the case the propositions submitted by the plaintiff in error, is the constitutionality of “An act to insure the better education of practitioners of horseshoeing, and to regulate the practice of horse-shoers in the State of Illinois,” referred to and described in the statement preceding this opinion. (See Laws of Ill. of 1897, p. 233).
So much of the act, as precedes the last section, requires any person, practicing the business of horse-shoeing in Illinois,…
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