City of Chicago v. M. & M. Hotel Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John C. ScovBL, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Vickers
The city of Chicago brought an action against the M. & M. Hotel Company, a corporation, in the municipal court of Chicago, to recover a penalty for carrying on and engaging in the business of conducting a hotel, known as the Lexington Hotel, at Twenty-second street and Michigan avenue, without having first obtained a license so to do, contrary to an ordinance passed by the city council January 7, 1907. The hotel company admitted, upon a hearing, that before the beginning of the suit it had been engaged in conducting such hotel business without having a license so to do. The municipal court…
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