Epoch Producing Corp. v. Schuettler

Appellee filed in the superior court of Cook county its petition praying that a writ of mandamus may be isstied commanding Charles C. Healy, general superintendent of police of the city of Chicago, and M. L. C. Eunkhouser, second deputy superintendent of police, and each of them, and their successors in office, forthwith to grant a permit to petitioner to exhibit its photoplay, “The Birth of a Nation,” in the city of Chicago to persons of all ages, as provided by the ordinances in force in said city governing the exhibition of photoplays of the character of said photoplay. The substance of…