Aliotta v. City of Chicago

Mr. Justice; Gunn

delivered the opinion of the court:

Appellant, Frank Aliotta, and forty-five others, who own and operate barber shops in the city of Chicago, filed their complaint in chancery on behalf of themselves and of others similarly situated, to enjoin the city from enforcing an ordinance providing for the licensing and regulation of barbers and barbershops in the city, and to enjoin the defendant and its officials from prosecuting certain quasi-criminal actions against individual barbers for failing to pay license fees under said ordinance, and to declare said ordinance void for want…