Fligelman v. City of Chicago

Paul Fligelman and other operators of gasoline filling stations in the city of Chicago filed a bill in the circuit court of Cook county praying that the city be enjoined from enforcing a certain ordinance which provided that no gasoline filling station should be operated in said city without a license. Answer was filed and the cause was referred to a master, who found all issues of law and fact in favor of the city. The chancellor overruled exceptions to the master's report and entered a decree dismissing the bill for want of equity. From this, decree Fligelman and the others appealed.

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