City of Chicago v. Truax Greene & Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Joseph S. LaBuy, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1914.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes
delivered the opinion of the court.
The action below was brought to recover penalties for eighteen sales of cocaine made by plaintiff in error, a wholesale physicians’ supply house, to one Thomas S. Boberts, in violation of a city ordinance prohibiting sales of such drug to a person addicted to the habitual use of morphine and cocaine, and without. a written order of a duly registered practicing physician when made at wholesale.
The jury found a verdict of guilty, assessed a fine of nine hundred dollars, the minimum for that number of offenses, and judgment was…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- McCutcheon v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1873
- People v. NylinIllinois Supreme Court · 1908