Thillens, Inc. v. Morey

The Auditor and Attorney General of the State of Illinois together with the State’s Attorney of Cook County, and certain currency exchanges as intervening defendants, have appealed directly to this court from a declaratory judgment of the circuit court of Cook County adjudging that the 1951 amendment to the Community Currency Exchange Act of 1943 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1951, chap. 16½, pars. 30 et seq.) is invalid and unconstitutional as applied to plaintiff’s business because it has no proper foundation in the police power of the State.

The constitutionality and validity of a State statute being…