Block v. City of Chicago

The plaintiffs in error, Jake Block, Nathan Wolf, J. H. Ferris, B. Munstock, S. VanRonkel and A. VonRonkel, filed their bill of complaint in the superior court of Cook county against the defendant in error, city of Chicago, alleging that they were engaged in the business of operating five and ten-cent theaters in the city of Chicago, where moving pictures were displayed, and praying the court to enjoin the defendant in error from enforcing an ordinance entitled “An ordinance prohibiting the exhibition of obscene and immoral pictures and regulating the exhibition of pictures of the classes and…