Capitol Taxicab Co. v. Cermak

LINDLEY, District Judge.

Plaintiff is a corporation seeking to be allowed to transact the business of transporting passengers for hire in taxicabs in the city of Chicago. It prays in its bill of complaint an injunction against tho municipal authorities from enforcing a certain ordinance gov-earning the licensing of such public vehicles,

The ordinance creates a public vehicle 1L «enso commission and provides that no taxicab license shall issue unless the commission shall, after hearing, declare that “public con-venienee and necessity require Ihe proposed service.” However, it is further provided…