Rath v. City of Chicago
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Peter C. Walters, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1917. Affirmed.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action by plaintiff as-assignee of Frank H. Smiley and the Mooney-Boland Detective Agency to recover from the City of Chicago money paid as detective license fees under an ordinance of defendant, which ordinance was held in City of Chicago v. O’Brien, 268 Ill. 229, to have been enacted without authority. There was a trial before the court under a stipulation of facts supplemented by oral evidence on the part of plaintiff and a finding and judgment for $300.
Frank H. Smiley made one payment of $100 without protest, claim…
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