Beskin v. City of Chicago

Appellants, Rudolph Beskin, Nathan Blitzstein and Herman Kaplan, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, filed their bill in the circuit court of Cook county to restrain the enforcement by the city of Chicago of an ordinance passed May 19, 1926, regulating and licensing junk dealers. The case was heard upon a stipulation of fact. Appellants offered to prove certain other facts, but objections were sustained to the offer. The chancellor dismissed the bill for want of equity and an appeal has been prosecuted to this court, the trial court having certified that the validity of the…