City of Chicago v. Matthies

This is an appeal from a judgment of the municipal court of Chicago against appellants to recover a penalty for a violation of section 726 of the municipal code of the city of Chicago relating to buildings, as it existed at the time of this action. The cause comes here on the certificate of the trial judge that the validity of an ordinance is involved.

The charge against appellants is, that they have converted their property from a class of buildings known in the ordinance as class 6, which includes apartment buildings, to a building known as class 2b, which includes hotels, lodging houses and…