Hoyt v. McLaughlin

The appellant, William M. Hoyt, filed a bill in the superior court of Cook county, on the chancery side, for an injunction against Herman P. Grube and Robert G. McLaughlin, the appellees, the latter Uif whom was running a dram-shop located on the corner of Fifty-fifth street and Lake avenue in the city of Chicago. The bill alleged that the dram-shop was owned and conducted by McLaughlin under a license issued to Grube; that the ordinance under which said license was issued was void; that the petition filed with the application for license did not contain a sufficient number of signers, as…