Chicago Portrait Co. v. Federal Trade Commission

PAGE, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner (called company) asks that the order to cease and desist, entered against it by respondent (called Commission) in 1923, be set aside (Federal Trade Commission v. Chicago Portrait Co., Docket No. 840).

The company, the largest concern of its kind in the .United States, for more than 30 years has been engaged in taking orders for and making portraits of parents and other near relatives of its customers by coloring and finishing photographs enlarged from old photographs furnished by the customers. In the years 1919 to 1921, it did a business annually of from…