City of Chicago v. Brownell

The city prosecuted the appellee for violating an ordinance passed by the city September 16, 1889, in the same terms, substantially, as the act to prohibit book-making and pool-selling, approved May 31, 1887. The validity of that ordinance is the only question in the case, and that question arises on the proviso, “that the provisions of 'this ordinance shall not apply to the actual inelosure of fair or race track associations that are incorporated under the laws of the State,, during the actual time of the meetings of said associations, or within twenty-four hours before any such meeting.”

That…