Bauer v. City of Chicago

J. J. Bauer, the Churchill Cabinet Company, Nicholas Bonnett & Co. and the Commercial Sash and Door Company, the last three all Illinois corporations, filed their bill of complaint in the circuit court of Cook county, for themselves and others similarly situated, against the city of Chicago, to have declared, void, and to restrain the enforcement of, sections 960 to 963, inclusive, of the municipal code of 1922, requiring a license for the operation of certain factories within the city limits. The city answered the bill and a replication was filed to the answer. After a hearing the circuit…