Bismarck Hotel Co. v. Petriko

This is a direct appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County finding a tipping statute embodied in our Criminal Code to be unconstitutional and void in that it violates the due process clauses of both State and Federal constitutions. See: Ill. Rev. Stat. 1959, chap. 38, pars. 551, 552, 553.

The tipping statute, which was enacted in 1915, provides in section 1: “That it shall be unlawful for the owner, proprietor, lessee, superintendent, manager or agent of any hotel, restaurant, eating house, barber shop, theatre, store building, office building, factory, railroad, street…